“A filha do seu filho: história, memória e esquecimento da professora Crisantina Monteiro Dias (Barro – Ceará, 1945-1990).

Abstract

(Auto)biographical research in the field of education, whether in life stories or narratives of training, seeks to understand aspects related to teaching, such as training and professional identity, through the subjects' memories. In view of this, this research has as its main objective to analyze the autobiographical books Memórias de uma Professora (2010) and Fragmentos de uma História (2013), written by Crisantina Monteiro Dias, to understand the trajectory and experiences of this teacher in the city of Barro, state of Ceará. Based on these memories, we seek to investigate her work as an educator, from 1945 to 1990, in addition to problematizing the silencing of her political participation, as a councilwoman elected in 1967, during the period of the military dictatorship. As sources for the research, in addition to the books, we used the chronology of her career, the Book of Minutes of the City Council from 1966 to 1973, the results of the 1966 elections, photographs from the time and, finally, letters exchanged by the teacher with former students and friends. We worked with the methodology of (auto)biographical research, with the contributions of Abrahão (2003; 2009) and Moita (1995). The theoretical foundation is based on the studies of Passeggi; Souza and Vicentini (2011) and Nóvoa (2014), as well as discussions on biography, autobiography and self-writing, based on Arfuch (2010), Lejeune (2008), Foucault (2006) and Gomes (2004); in gender studies and women's education with Scott (1995), Perrot (2007), Louro (2020), Rago (1995) and Lerner (2019); and discussions on memory and forgetting with Albuquerque Júnior (1994), Halbwachs (1990), Catroga (2001), Gomes (1996), Ricoeur (2007) and Pollak (1989). It is hoped that this research can contribute to the historiography of the region and that, through the reflections, discussions and dialogues promoted in this monograph, new perspectives and visions about the life of teacher Crisantina Monteiro Dias may emerge.