A cidade em movimento: práticas educativas do morar e conviver no bairro Benfica

Abstract

The city of Fortaleza underwent significant changes, related to the rational guidelines, inserted in its urban space. The evolution of the economic system renewing and recreating new processes of accumulation through the advancement of technology and science reached social practices and restructured the urban fabric. Some areas in the city were more affected by these transformations than others. In the neighborhoods there was in most cases an oscillation between deterioration and renovation, reorganization and expansion of its functions and characteristics. Among these neighborhoods, Benfica stands out. This is perceived in several ways: Construction of condominium buildings and shopping center, contrasting with the oldest fair-free of Fortaleza; The permanence of families, who do not want to move out of the neighborhood and who live there for more than 50 years, from the wheels of friends (residents, students, employees, teachers and residents of the neighborhood) in bars and steakhouses, Already lived in the neighborhood and who always visit him to "kill a little of nostalgia, chatting with old friends", in the pre-carnival and carnival, a reference in the search of an identity for the Carnival of Fortaleza and in the various educational institutions Installed there. Through the study of the educational practices developed in the Benfica neighborhood, by its residents, students, teachers and employees of educational institutions, merchants and traders, trade unionists, among others, we will realize that more than anywhere in our culture, the neighborhood is the space that Speaks of our emotional experience, a self-reference of social life. In addition to the educational function that differentiates Benfica from the other neighborhoods of Fortaleza, it is also a space loaded with symbolism, a product of everyday life, resulting from the population segments that transformed it into a space for social integration. Our study aims to present the educational practices that develop in Benfica, based on the narratives of those who inhabit and live in the neighborhood, associated with other sources such as images and written documents, for an interpretation using the hermeneutical method and a theoretical contribution that is based on the New Cultural History, New Cultural Geography, Memory, Oral History, Microhistory, History and Local Geography and the concept of Educational Practices.