Memórias e identidades de professores alfabetizadores da comunidade de baixa verde, município de Poço Dantas – PB (1969-1989)

Abstract

This research sought to analyze the memories and identities of literacy teachers from Baixa Verde community, in Poço Dantas city - PB (1969-1989), being outlined from memories, in a construction process of professional identity. The qualitative research used the oral history of life methodology and the semi-structured interview technique for data collection. The theoretical framework resorted to authors who discuss the themes of memory, identity and the teaching profession, such as Bosi (1994; 2003), Carvalho (2002); Halbwachs (2003), Le Goff (2013); Nóvoa (1999; 2000), Freire (2005; 2014) and others. The analyzes showed teachers' life, school degree and work, dialoguing with the community history in the rural area of Paraíba's hinterland, concretizing memories built in the past by the collaborators' reports. Thus, the collected narratives convey the experiences, community traditions and the literacy teachers' background, based on the memory that tells the difficulties, suffering and family life of each teacher. Finally, they reveal the struggle for survival by rural and professional work, which contributed to the identity construction of each one, building themselves by the trajectories lived, remembering the social environment in which they lived in Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte's hinterland.