Trajetória de vida de pessoa com deficiência e Sociedade Pestalozzi do Ceará: percurso formativo e práxis libertadora

Abstract

The present work analyses the life path of a person with disability who lives in Fortaleza, the capital city of Ceará, a North-eastern State in Brazil. That person had been through a formative process at Pestalozzi Society in Ceará (SPCE), which is the locus of this research, from 1980 to 1990. Methodologically, it is a case study, for it allows to analyse both individual and collective social phenomena, under the locus perspective, specifically from its core individuals’ experience. As a methodological tool, narrative interviews were conducted with the subject of this research and also with his mother figure, for she accompanied him throughout the formative process, lucidly maintaining the experiences lived in the institution. Besides the interviews, the roaming journal was also used, an approach that brought technical records, and, in addition, dealt with the dimension of the researcher's feeling, immersed in the research environment. However, it was found that, by exposing its historical context, crossing with the nuances highlighted by Antônio and Edimar, SPCE maintained pedagogical perspectives alluding to the Pestalozzi Society as a national institution, at least concerning the 1980s and 1990s. Regarding Antônio, Edimar and SPCE, at the moment affection was experienced in their living practice, emotional bonds were created, which were important for the course of their own pedagogical formative process.