Autobiographical narratives and representations: the interweaving of teachers’ histories

• Main Author: Cláudia Regina Costa Pacheco
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Maria 2014-01-01
• Series: Educação (UFSM)
• Subjects: Narrativas Autobiográficas; Representações Sociais; Docentes.
• Online Access: http://cascavel.ufsm.br/revistas/ojs-2.2.2/index.php/reveducacao/article/view/11342

<div dir="ltr">This work analyses the concepts of authority and authoritarianism through autobiographical narratives made by teachers from basic education schools in Santa Maria – RS and, through social repre - sentations. This is a bibliographical research. We made use of the</div><div dir="ltr">Social Representations and also the Oral History. This article is di - vided into five sections. The first one approaches the Oral History as a possibility to tell the history of the contemporary world. The second one is a discussion on the Social Representations Theory as a decryption of everyday life. Maffesoli (1998) on the third section questions what would be better to represent or to present in the</div><div dir="ltr">construction of reality. The fourth section is a reflection on the te - achers’ speeches and the studied bibliography. Finally, the last sec - tion brings up teachers speeches about the concepts of educators’ authority and authoritarianism.</div>