Educação, literatura e memória: narrativas sobre a educação e a escola a partir do olhar de Machado de Assis e Cora Coralina

Abstract

This thesis, "Education, literature and memory: narratives about education and school from the perspective of Machado de Assis and Cora Coralina", fits into the line of research on Education, Society and Culture of the Postgraduate Program in Education at PUC-Goiás, investigating the education model of the 19th and 20th centuries through Machado's work and Coralina's poetry. The general objective is to seek in the narratives of Machado de Assis and in the poems of Cora Coralina the representation of the history of education and the memory of the school of that period through literary writing. The objects of analysis are concentrated in "Conto de Escola", "Teoria do Medalhão" and "Um cão de lata ao rabo" and, also, in the poems "Beco da escola", "A escola da mestra Silvina" and "Mestra Silvina". Therefore, the work is justified by establishing a relationship between the history of education and the imagery of the school through literature, where literary texts provide a complete representation of the form of teaching, the way in which the construction of knowledge was mediated and, above all, the educational context of the 19th and 20th centuries. The theme addressed by both Machado de Assis and Cora Coralina, despite being linked to Realism and Modernism, respectively, remains contemporary due to the range of knowledge due to the scientificist vision focused on human behavior, the world and the country that professed, above all, a school pattern with models of people and daily life. As a theoretical-methodological foundation, it was necessary to resort to qualitative bibliographical research based on Triviños (1987), starting from the method of cultural history with the contribution of Roger Chartier (1988). To this end, the theoretical precepts of Umberto Eco (1993), Hannah Arendt (1995), Franco Cambi (1999), Paul Ricoeur (2000), Antonio Candido (2004), Gabriel Perissé (2006), John Gledson (2006), Dermeval Saviani (2008), Maria Zeneide Carneiro Magalhães de Almeida (2009) and Paulo Freire (2009) are used in education. The theoretical framework focused on literature focuses on Machado de Assis (2011), Cora Coralina (2013), Paulo Ghiraldelli Junior (2015) and Harold Bloom (2017). Therefore, the work is the result of historical-educational and literary research that discusses the issue of memory, culture and school narrative. The literary production left by Machado de Assis and Cora Coralina takes us to a world in which society is approached in a timeless way and with its human values