Pedagogias da experiência no mundo do trabalho: narrativas biográficas no contexto de mudanças de um banco público estadual

Abstract

The aim of the present thesis is to reflect the experience in the working world. We based our research on the construction of biographic narratives of former employees of Banespa - Banco do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo State Bank) - who underwent a process of changes that was the result of the ancient public Paulista bank's privatization and takeover by the Spanish private bank Santander in November 2000. We initially carried out an ethnographic research to survey the impacts on the life of Banespa employees - the banespianos - caused by that change, a change that resulted in the dismissal of thousands of them and in a fast restructuring of the workload. As a result, banespianos experienced the loss of their feeling of belonging in relation to the company, the loss of their socioprofessional identity. Based on that ethnographic context, we set up four biographic narratives which allow us to understand those changes from the angle of the experiences actually lived by the subjects. Those experiences were collected on the occasion of meetings with the subjects, i.e. the biographed, and us, the researcher, during which the subjects narrated their life stories. The biographic narratives are a learning process between the lived, the narrated, and the interpreted, insofar as the subjects involved in the research and the building of knowledge carry out a reflection on themselves. They used their experience as a starting-point and that is why the narratives are analytically understood as pedagogies of the experience in the world of work.