A trajetória de quatro educadoras nas primeiras instituições formais do distrito de Pitombeira de Dentro (1970-1980)

Abstract

This Course Completion Work (TCC) is part of a broader investigation being developed in the Education and Educators project in Paraíba of the 20th Century. The objective of this study, in particular, is to explain the importance of the trajectory of four educators Aurora Maria de Jesus Pinto, Maria Procópio de Souza, Joana Justo da Silva and Ana Justo de Souza, in the first formal institutions in the district of Pitombeira de Dentro (PB) , rural area of the municipality of Santana dos Garrotes throughout the 1970s and 1980s. This investigation is justified by the relevance of the pioneering pedagogical activities of these educators in the first formal institutions created in the local community. As a research instrument, we initially used semi-structured and recorded interviews with the aforementioned educators. After surveying the oral sources obtained in the interviews, we selected the information (categories) most present in the narratives about the trajectories, highlighting, above all, the role of each one as a literacy teacher in the proposed time frame. Based on the interviews and other sources, it was possible to compose mini-biographies of the educators, highlighting in their trajectories the formative experiences lived in the community of Pitombeira de Dentro (PB). The mini-biographies are also accompanied by photographs of the aforementioned educators during their period of activity. Although the image records are not necessarily of teaching practices, since at the time such technological resources were scarce, it was possible through the images to better understand the reports about the recent past in its multiple aspects. Therefore, from the analysis of oral sources, images and written sources, it was possible to understand in a broader way the role of constituting the identity of the educators in this study.