Maria José Mamede Galvão: memórias e formação de uma educadora

Abstract

This dissertation is inserted in the research Education and Educators of Paraíba of Century XX, more specifically in the history of the women, focusing on the practices of writings and representations. The objective is to analyze the educational trajectory of the educator Maria José Mamede Galvão, based on the following questions: how did their pedagogical practices prove innovative in the face of the traditional education model? How did you build your trajectory in school life, despite the difficulties with the mother's care and the care of domestic life? How were your writings born and how did they contribute to a deeper understanding of the educational practices of a formative era? He was enrolled in the theoreticalmethodological approach of the New Cultural History and authors such as Chartier, Le Goff and Burke, for emphasizing that, from this displacement, the biographical investigation of the subjects and historical objects considered additional or underrepresented was allowed, thus providing a deeper understanding of the past and the present. In this field we bring a (auto) biographical perspective through the work with oral, printed and iconographic sources, in order to understand Maria José Mamede Galvão 's educational paths, in the construction of other pedagogical perspectives in each context of her professional performance. In the study, Maria José Mamede Galvão demonstrated a fine sensitivity of women to the arts and with concerns of expanding the scope of the teaching-learning relationship in the horizons of the school's creativity. In view of the above, it can be stated that the educator contributed both to the schooling process and to the process of sociocultural changes, during the more than thirty years dedicated to the education of Rio Grande do Norte.