Embaçamento de fronteiras: o rural e o urbano encontram-se no espaço escolar

Abstract

“Lagoon School” is a meeting place for different students and backgrounds. Located in the urban area of Juiz de Fora, it serves an area known as “High City”, as well as many other students who come from different rural communities and areas close to a federal highway. Its location facilitates the intersection of trajectories of students from different origins. Here, the migrant students are represented by teenagers, ranging in ages from twelve to nineteen years, who live in rural areas and commute to attend Primary School. This paper addresses the commutation, the narratives and representations of those students, starting from the school environment. It makes reference to the theoretical assemblages established by nomad thought philosophers, such as Nietzsche, Foucault, Larrosa, and Veiga-Neto, among others. The topics of space and urban-rural relationship are present in various aspects of the investigation; however, they are presented under the perspective of non-hegemonic authors in order to follow the great number of forces that generate temporary paths of investigation. Hence, the interpretative and ethnographic research can proceed well, involving great preparation during the investigation process. Field research mainly included interviews, observations and informal conversations. The text was divided into three parts: Constitution – an introduction to the topic and the development of assemblages from different authors; Architecture (Process) – refers to the work produced after the first incursions into the field; and Combination – based on the semi-structured individual interviews, a procedure which allowed for the creation of other narratives. Therefore, the description of the school environment was transcended by every-day stories created from experiences shared between the students and the researcher.