Potes que jorram histórias: narrativas das Infâncias em Pintadas – Ba

Abstract

The present dissertation proposes to analyze children's narratives through the experience of Poteca, a library of oral stories that in the place of books has pots, in a context of suture between research and extension of the Federal University of Bahia. The intention of this work* is to approach this practice inside the context of childhood, since it has the stigma of occupying a position of silence in view of its cultural production and the capacity to check the meaning in an autonomous way. To do this, we will bring inside the studies of culture and identities new perspective about this social group based on a multi referential approach, having as methodological choice the qualitative research. In this way, we will reflect on the Poteca based on a theoretical framework from the studies of the human sciences about the children and their nuances. It is worth emphasizing that the intention here is also to go beyond the social construction of the concept of childhood, understanding this stratum as a group lacking a sensitive look and its conception as something that is beyond the socially accepted age range. Although the research going through some spaces of learning, the focus given in the text will be for the experience lived in the city of Pintadas - Ba, a city pioneer in the adhesion to the solidarity economy as way of production. The analysis is made based on the process of approaching with the city during the construction and execution of the 12th Cultural Week of Pintadas. The overlap with cultural programming took place through the organization of Experience: university out, proposed by the Movement of Youth Live People (Movimento de Juventude Viva Gente), in partnership with the Central Directory of Students (DCE - UFBA), with the support of the Pro-Rectory of Extension (UFBA). It also permeates the context of a city that turns to new practices of social and economic technologies based on cooperativism and self-management that were motivated by the movement of Liberation Theology that began in the 1960s. The theoretical framework aims to deal with childhood cultures and their developments, of oral performance in dialogue with the psychodynamics of orality, as well as the concept of experience and the dimensions of time in western culture.