“Experimental gropings” and the responsible acting: a possible dialogue between Freinet and Bakhtin in the school day

Abstract

The goal of this text is to present the dialog woven by freinetian pedagogy and the bakhtinian philosophy through "experimental gropings" of a teacher that acts in the relation with the students. We will bring a piece of the teacher's professional Master's degree research, making evident the materiality produced by her and her students of an elementary public school in the state of São Paulo, using a narrative methodology of research in education. Personal cards, evidences of meetings, free texts and narratives are what make up this materiality that will be analysed in this article. These materials were produced using Freinet pedagogy techniques, adapted by the teacher and by the students in a way that incorporates them in a school context that the use of handout material is mandatory. In handling the bakhtinian philosophy and the readings of Freinet, it was established that the handout material redirects the teacher and students to a culturally obtuse direction, leaving aside the world of the lives lived by each of the involved. When the teacher and the students start to experimentally grope the freinetian techniques, the world brought in by the students and the teacher penetrates the classroom and contributes to the teaching practice and the production of know ledge starts being oriented by the lives and the relations of the subjects.