Research with the everyday life

Abstract

The research chain that was named as ‘research in/of/with the everyday life’ started being articulated in Brazil thirty years ago. The article talks about what was this beginning and the preoccupation with the methodological organization at the moment, since something new was being created at the country, and here, it’s told the history of the possible beginning. It indicates the initial theoretical bases brought by Certeau and Deleuze, although, next, multiple groups were organized, in many Brazilian universities, around various themes and counting on the inclusion of many European and Latin American authors, such as: Maturana, Lefebvre, Mafesoli, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, among others. At last, it points out the most recent epistemological-theoretical-methodological questions of the group. Reminding then, the necessary movements to research with everyday life; the countless educative networks that we form and in which we are formed; the importance of intercessors to the formation of thinking; the virtuality in the formation of possible curricular events; a diverse comprehension for the idea of repetition, as ‘spacetime’ of change; the talks as a central locus of research processes; the need of relations with arts for the research of this chain, taking us to the comprehension of everyone presence in all senses in our everyday life, actions and thinking; the comprehension that pedagogical acts always bring into the picture ethical, aesthetical, political and poetical dimensions.