Lugares de memória educacional: a história de um instituto federal de educação, ciência e tecnologia nas páginas de suas biografias

Abstract

The objective of this research is to investigate the biographies of a federal institute of education, science and technology as places of memory. Adopting a historical-hermeneutic methodology, based on the work of Paul Ricœur and his dialectic of explaining-understanding, which allows for the understanding of the text as a sociocultural creation, three biographies published between 2002 and 2017 are analyzed, narrating the trajectory of a federal institute of education, science and technology. The technical, political and pedagogical-academic dimensions are used as categories of analysis. As a result, the structural aspects of the biographies and the underlying meanings of their text are presented, thus identifying the main historical-mnemonic aspects of the organization, highlighting the political dimension as an underlying social fabric that allows for the achievement of socio-organizational life. The apprehension of the political dimension, present in the works without being enunciated, occurs not only through memories but also through silences and omissions.