ORAL SOURCES IN THE EDUCATION HISTORY WRITING ACCORDING TO MICHEL DE CERTEAU AND WALTER BENJAMIN

Abstract

This paper aims to present aspects of research experience with oral sources. It also emphasizes the potential of this methodology in the Education History writing. It investigated childhood practices and ways to understanding and meaning them through the memory of fifteen interviewees aged between 70 and 89 years old. In their childhood, these elderlies were students in public schools of the urban nucleus of Florianopolis city, Santa Catarina State, from 1930 to 1950. Michel de Certeau was the theoretical contribution to think the narrative as art of saying, the childhood practices and the everyday. According to Walter Benjamin, the concepts of narrator, experience and history guided the reflections about the elderlies as narrators, as well as the capacity to narrate in our time.