1955: o saber matemático escolar na subjetivação de trabalhadores

Abstract

In this research context we conduct ourselves building a "history of today", about ways of subjectivity of workers from different labor areas, in the relationships they establish with the knowledge-power practices and with the truth games in the field of School Mathematics Education, space in which occupies a place of relevance in the socioeducational context, due to the dissemination and value assigned to it. We take on the challenge of talking about the variation of the subjectivity ways produced by statements and enunciations of the mathematical discourse, exploring the sayings of workers that enable to see: Which subjectivities are produced in the relations established by the individuals with school mathematics? How is the production of subjectivities from these relationships? We start from the narratives of workers to broader cultural narratives, searching the threads that weave and sustain the discursive network that enables to say and see the mathematical knowledge in the constitution of the subject. To analyze how the discourses reverberate in the ways of being, seeing and telling in relation to school mathematical knowledge, we will use the theoretical tools designed by Michel Foucault, considering from his teachings that workers are historical subjects, forged in history, as well as in the cultural context that runs through them, once subjectivity is not innate, but fabricated and imposed by the discourses that produce us historical and culturally. With this understanding and the intricacies of the provocation arising from Foucault, we brought to our thinking in relation to how the workers place themselves in the struggle between their labor mathematical knowledge and erudite knowledge of mathematical science, the mechanisms they use and the effects of this fight, or the acceptance of the erudite in what they do. We emphasize that the mesh of discursive and non-discursive practices produces mathematics as knowledge that qualifies a person, a people, a nation, producing at the same time the "good"student, the successful worker, and also the disabled, the unsuccessful worker. However, if there are subjections, there is also resistance, refusal, insurrections. From them are born other ways of being, other knowledges, other mathematics that make new truths appear, new skills that dispute and pluralize spaces of power in the broad discursive symphony. This encourages us to say that if life is a friend of art, it is possible with art to invent, incessantly, mathematical knowledge which mean the opening of this big prison closures that are the boundaries.