Narrative: knowledge and affectivity in youth and adult education class

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the interrelationship of affection, school knowledge and cognitive development that are evident in the teaching and learning practices of an education class for young people and adults. In order to think about the subject in his material and existential life conditions, as well as in his relations with the practices of learning, I took as a theoretical reference the studies of Vigotski and collaborators. Considering that the dimension of the subjects' singularity is central to the understanding of the organization and the transformations of affectivity, I privileged, in the construction of the data, the description and analysis of the interactive dynamics, established and mediated by language and, within them, the evidence of unique configuration of the experiences lived by individuals in their own unique history. For the collection of empirical data, I used the qualitative-ethnographic approach. I recorded, in ‘field diary’, interactive episodes produced in the classroom, involving students, the teacher and myself. In the record of the fragments, I observed the social conditions of production of the interactions, as well as the sayings, gestures, writings and postures assumed by the subjects involved in them. For the construction, organization and interpretation of empirical data, I considered narrativization as an adequate technique to present the subjects in the interactive dynamics in which they were inserted, in the richness of their sayings, gestures, expressions, without losing sight of their interlocutors equally. Through this technique, I could give visibility to intonations, to time, to the interactive movement itself in which the reciprocal affects were showing itself. The evidence suggests that it is knowledge that modulates pedagogical relationships in the classroom. Learning and not learning knowledge elicit emotional and affective expressions of joy, sadness, refusal, indifference, motivation, pleasure, which are indicated in body gestures, verbal and non-verbal language.