Personal Writings: Expression of a Life in Ego-Documents of a Brazilian Teacher (1967-1969)

Abstract

This article aims to analyze traces of experiences lived by a woman teacher in her training process from personal manuscripts located in ego-documents (personal diaries andsketchbooks that demarcated her life and her formation for teaching.These sources are preserved in a personal archive where it is sought to study ways of expression as well as the material supports in which such writings are produced, problematizing them as a place of feelings, emotions and affections.Working with this autobiographical material made it possible to seek evidence of how a young woman saw and represented her daily life and described aspects of his  school education and in the late 1960s, in southern Brazil and, more broadly, to examine writing practices as practices of female memory in the keynote of gender studies and purveyor of generational models that,  between permanences and ruptures. attest to social and cultural patterns of the time,The study is anchored in the perspective of the History of Education mediated by the investigative experience of the History of the Present Time that contemplates, in different temporalities, the dimensions and possibilities of ego-documents that allow reconfigurations of pasts where it is possible to find in the singularity of an intimate writing, a discourse, a memory, a story to tell.