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Linguagens, Educação e Sociedade (LES)
Print version ISSN 1518-0743On-line version ISSN 2526-8449
Abstract
ROSA, Camila Petrucci dos Santos; KOYAMA, Adriana Carvalho and BRAGANCA, Inês Ferreira de Souza. A WANDERING JOURNEY: DEVIATION AS A METHOD IN NARRATIVE AND (AUTO)BIOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH - CONTRIBUTIONS OF WALTER BENJAMIN. Revista LES [online]. 2024, vol.28, n.57, 5499. Epub Apr 03, 2025. ISSN 2526-8449. https://doi.org/10.26694/rles.v28i57.5499.
This article invites reflection on deviation as a method in narrative and (auto)biographical research, drawing on the contributions of Walter Benjamin through the socialization of glimpses from a wandering journey experienced in a research-training that focused on childhoods, in relation to memories, narratives, and everyday school life. In a context where unrestrained acceleration causes experiences to become increasingly fragmented, buried, and considered ruins, Benjaminian thought enhances the unexpectedness of the everyday that is present in life, in education, in research, and in knowledge production. The dialogical intertwining of (auto)biographical narratives of multiple childhoods, written in monads, brings forth the potentialities of aesthetic rationality and the relationships between memory and narration. The text invites us to turn towards our lived experiences in research, again and again, with renewed alterity, just as children do daily in their relationships, in movements that subvert previously fixed paths. While deviation as a method may seem risky, in getting lost, we can collectively produce valuable, instituting transformations and knowledge, without pretensions of intentional rationality. Immersion in the everyday school life of early childhood education in the company of children, Benjamin, and the writing of monads, thus pointed towards reflections that can inspire us in what we so desire: other ways of inhabiting the Earth, the school, the university.
Keywords : Deviation as method; Childhoods; Memory practices; Narrative research; (Auto)biographical research ..
