Memórias e histórias de professores : um percurso (auto)formativo pela cultura da paz

Abstract

This study was made in order to investigate the life stories of five university professors, who were / are members of the Study Group for Peace GEPAZ, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul PUCRS, for which it was proposed to write memorials and participate of interviews using autobiographical narratives of life, as autobiographical sources for the analysis in relation to the direction of the research methodology. Both sources were analyzed in the light of Paul Ricoeur s narrative hermeneutics, in dialogue with Hannah Arendt s political philosophy and with Marie-Christine Josso s methodology for the study of life stories. The written and oral narratives put the following questions: how I became an agent of peace? What facts, circumstances, people, events, situations, led these professors to be sensitive to the Education for Peace? Understand the choices and the directions taken by educators during their professionalization was one of the wires conductors of this study. The stories of the studied educators led me to a thorough examination of the Peace as praxis and human dimension, built in deepening dialogue and experience. Being an educator for Peace calls for a choice and a look directed to the plurality and the condition of man in the world. Peace, in these stories of life, leads to a collective responsibility and to a conscious political position, becoming a polysemic concept that embraces values and principles to be effective. Enlarged by the possibility of life in the narratives of the studied professors, peace becomes a human science and the presente study becomes one of the more steps we take towards a training effort for Peace.