Confluências entre educação e religião na prática política da Dorcelina de Oliveira Folador em Mundo Novo-MS (1981-1999)

Abstract

Biographical studies greatly contribute to the enrichment of research in the field of History of Education, since, through the exercise of constructing a narrative about the practices of a subject in interface with the current historical context, it allows the researcher to access traces of a social collectivity. In the case of this Thesis, the biographical trajectory of Dorcelina de Oliveira Folador is addressed, in the intertwining of the history of Education and politics in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Dorcelina de Oliveira Folador was the only woman elected mayor in the municipality of Mundo Novo- MS, in addition, was the first disabled woman and representative of the Landless Rural Workers Movement to hold a position as mayor in Brazil. From this perspective, the objective of this work is to record the training trajectory of the biographed Dorcelina de Oliveira Folador, with an emphasis on the analysis of the cultural capital and the sociability network built by her, as means to establish professional insertions in Education and in politics in Mato Grosso do Sul, between 1981 and 1999. The temporal cut used is based on following more closely the political nuances applied to the national and regional educational context, as well as those manifested in the local economy and religion, which in some way contributed to the identity formation of the subject. Therefore, the year 1981 was chosen, which marks the entry of Dorcelina de Oliveira Folador into the First Series of the Second Degree in the Teaching course and ends in the year 1999, when the biographer died. The methodology adopted, for this purpose, is biased towards historical-documentary research, taking as its main sources of research dealing with the private collections made available by family and friends of Dorcelina de Oliveira Folador, intertwined with documents produced and preserved by public institutions, in addition to of the bibliographical support available on the subject, in order to make known, record, analyze and preserve the biographical trajectory and, in this case, the practices of historical subjects, in this case, females, for the educational scenario in Mato Grosso do Sul . These are discussions made in the light of theorists such as Bourdieu (1996), Artières (1998), Certeau (1998), among others. Thus, with this research work, it became possible to reflect on the challenges that the education historian has in the relationship with his sources and with the writing of the historiographic narrative, requiring, for this purpose, the adoption of methodological rigor. From the research work carried out, it was also verified how much biographical studies can still contribute to research in the field of History of Education. In the same way, it was possible to verify that Dorcelina de Oliveira Folador was able to access the political space of Mundo Novo-MS based on the dialogical relationship between the microcosms of education, religion and politics and, along with this, based on the articulations developed by the biographer when launching hands of their cultural capital and their sociability networks.