Memories in Palimpsesto: Buildings and school spaces in student narratives in Porto Alegre/RS (1920-1980)

Abstract

The present study investigates oral memories’ narratives of students about spaces and school buildings inhabited by them, from 1920 to 1980. Its main objective is to produce a kind of cartography of the sensations about the spaces lived during schooling, Identified in the documentation. The research privileged the examination of the discursive content of the eight interviews carried out using oral history methodology. From the analyzes of recurrences and dissonances in the narratives, two categories of analysis were constructed: "The Old and the New: relationships between students and school buildings"; "Between surveillance and fun: the school space as a curricular element"; For the research, the spaces of schooling acquire a prominent place at the time of remembrance. These memories, loaded with resignification, bring evidence to understand school architecture as an agent in building student sensitivities.