Chile "in" the Amazon of Rondoniense: arpilleras and arpilleros, stories, plots and experiences in the context of the Teaching Initiation Program - PIBID

Abstract

The present study focuses on reflection on migration stories from the 1970s onwards, narrated and (re)written by students of the Degree in History and Rural Education, at the Federal University of Rondônia, also interspersed with the memories of a higher education teacher. It derives from a participant-research project, its scope is the dialectic present in thinking-performing-thinking during the activities undertaken within the subproject of the Teaching Initiation Program at the Federal University of Rondônia, 2022 edition. While the scholarship holders studied, read, listened to songs and performed "embroidery" inspired by the Chilean arpilleras technique. The stories were those that emerged from their own experiences and those of their ancestors (parents, grandparents, and other relatives). In the intertwining of the threads of memories, narratives were stitched together and deposited on the fabrics and with them, they began to explore one of the many possibilities for teaching and thinking about history. Theoretical premises Freire (1997) and Rama (2015) were adopted. We also chose to write the author's past experiences, interspersed and associated with the resistance of Chilean women during the period of General Pinochet's dictatorship and a Brazilian woman (from Santa Catarina) made embroidery her livelihood, her light and beauty that the pain of excess transformed into temporary insanity.