O lugar como emergência de caminhos e convergências para o pertencimento e a aprendizagem.

Abstract

Considering as a starting point my trajectory through different spaces, many of which have become places, I have tried, in the narrative research that originated this dissertation, to investigate the concept of place in order to understand how I see myself in construction with it, in order to understand my choices, including my graduate studies and the option in the education field. Besides that, I investigated how the theme is perceived by a group of students who have a similar experience to my own. The idea made me problematize and reflect upon the concept of place as space for affection, as the appearance of ways and convergence of ideas, of feelings of belonging, that is, of how the person constitutes him/herself in (and through) this place, once we can see the “whole world” and ourselves through the local/global space. In order to exemplify and to give support to the investigation, as well as to attempt to approach the theme from the perspective of many authors that have been studied in the Learning, Technologies and Language research line, I based my work on the complexity theory and deepened my studies specially in Edgar Morin, Francisco Varela and Humberto Maturana. To do so, I used the phenomenological method from the considerations of Merleau-Ponty and Bicudo. Concerning the concept of place, I supported my researches in authors such as Milton Santos and Yi-Fu Tuan. The aim was to understand place as a privileged locus for the contact and for the relations between the man and the world, having in mind that there is where the learning emerges. The conclusions point to the understanding that the perceptions, the experiences and the memory of the human beings and the social groups are, therefore, important elements in the constitution of not only geographical knowledge, but also pedagogical and educational ones.