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Humanities
- ISSN: 2155-7993
- Journal of Modern Education Review
Resonances between Life and Education
Paula Chieffi
(University of São Paulo, Brazil)
Abstract: Brazilian students occupied their own schools as a huge protest in response to the state’s plan that intended to close 94 public schools. Their response to the announcement was immediate and on Nov./15, a
handful of students decided to occupy a school in the metropolitan area of São Paulo. Within a week, nearly 100
schools had been occupied, and, a week later, 200.
They were directed influenced by the movement of Chilean’s students that happened during 2006, known as “La rebelión pinguina”. They also followed the flow of the 2013’s protesters demanding reductions in public transportation fares as of the protests against evictions intended to clear the way for stadium construction of the 2014 World Cup.
The school’s occupation enjoyed broad support from parents, neighbors, teachers and the wider community, although it had faced tough resistance from the state government by the violent action of military police — the same treatment all the other social movements received.
The idea of this paper is to use clinical listening as a mode to access forces and lines, functioning as critics and as lines of flight on the realm of public education. The clinical listening is operated as non-moral and non-hierarchical domain, setting a state of listening able to capture vibrations that can resonates as interfere on the production of different modes of education and life.
Besides, the analysis of the student’s occupations seem to have points of connection with some listening groups of students of public schools in Brazil. These groups took place in other context, but they seem to resonate common issues with the occupation movement and trace relations of closeness with the proposal of singular educational processes.
Key words: state of listening, resonance and singular educational processes.
