Scene understanding: interpretative possibility of (self-)training narratives of former Pibid scholarship holders^*

Abstract

This study aims to use Scene Understanding as an interpretative possibility in the process of analyzing (self-)training narratives of former scholarship holders of the Institutional Scholarship Program of Initiation to Teaching (Pibid). The text states, through this methodology, that narratives are understood as a recursive process, in which they are dialogically articulated between the speaker and the listener. The narratives analyzed in this study were written by 20 students, participants of the Pibid from a federal university in the south of Brazil, between 2010 and 2012. These narratives were later analyzed in relation to Scene Understanding, and three scenes were produced. Scene 1 gathered narrators and researchers in listening that evokes the given word; scene 2 referred to multiple daily facts and experiences of the narrators; and scene 3 highlighted experiences and situations repressed or forgotten in the narrative process. These scenes configure biographical and narrative times and spaces and constitute a systemic group, in which the sense of the experienced/narrated fact is understood in relation to the spaces/times that concern it. The text concludes that revisiting the training trajectories of former students helped clarify the reservoir of images recorded by them, providing a meaning and understanding of their choices and motivations in the construction of professional identities.

Scene understanding; (Self-)training narratives in teaching; Former Pibid scholarship holders