Apresentação - Dossiê "Estudantes da Universidade, narrativas e relação com o saber"

Abstract

This thematic dossier entitled “University students, narratives and relationship with knowledge” is one of the activities of the collaboration network, in Brazil coordinated by Rosemeire Reis Universidade Federal de Alagoas -Brazil, in Argentina, by Soledad Vercellino, from the National Universities of Comahue and Rio Negro (Argentina); in France by Valérie Melin, at the University of Lille. This partnership is based on a common interest in theoretical-methodological research on the relationship with the knowledge of university students and adults, using narratives to investigate the meanings attributed to the different dimensions of university life. The dossier expands and enhances the dialogues on this research topic, through the socialization of theoretical productions and empirical studies that contribute to reflections on the possibilities and limits of studies with narratives to investigate the relationship with the world, with others and with themselves of university students/ the political, economic, historical and cultural contexts of different countries. It consists of two important interviews: the first with one of the main exponents of the theory of the relationship with knowledge, Prof. Bernard Charlot (Federal University of Sergipe). The other interview, with the founder of the biographical research in education in France, Prof. Dr. Christine Delory-Momberger and, also, thirteen articles by renowned researchers from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and France. The articles that make up the dossier are organized into two large groups: on the one hand, a series of studies that focus on the meanings attributed to the different dimensions of the university course, with their subjective and objective challenges, which affect the identity processes of young people and adults, in the construction of themselves as students. And, on the other hand, investigations that explore the heuristic value of the notions of relationship with knowledge and narrative investigation, in their different aspects, for the study of teacher training and in relation to certain didactic and disciplinary knowledge.