A educação sergipana como representação cinematográfica: reflexões a partir dos documentários “Carregadoras de sonhos” e “Atravessa a vida”

Abstract

The present work, entitled “Sergipe Education as a cinematographic representation: reflections based on the documentaries Carregadoras de Sonhos (2010), by director Deivison Fiúza, and Atravessa a Vida (2021)”, by director João Jardim, aims, in general, to understand how national cinema has represented the problems of Brazilian education, especially in Sergipe, mapping the political-educational challenges, mainly the daily tensions in the school environment and their impacts on its social agents (teachers, students and the community in its surroundings). Specifically, the research aims to demarcate the cinematographic productions that have problematized Brazilian education in the last 20 years, especially in Sergipe; to understand how social and educational issues are debated in film contexts; to establish connections between educational issues and their forms of representation, expression and demand in the documentaries Carriers of Dreams and Atravessa a Vida. As for the methodology adopted in this work, we opted for thematic analysis, supported by authors such as Penafria (2009), and Bill Nichols with his concept of documentary voice. Thus, the thematic film analysis leads us to a detailed examination, a fragmentation of the film. In addition, it corresponds to a decomposition, that is, describing and then establishing relations between these decomposed elements, that is, interpreting. This research was structured in four sections: the first is the introduction, which contains the outline and delimitation of the theme addressed in the study. In the second section, we dedicate ourselves to understanding the documentary, both in the appreciation of general concepts and their implications in Brazil. The third section was dedicated to the debate surrounding the creation of a national education system, as well as a national education project. Section four was dedicated to the analysis of the two documentaries that served as the corpus of the research. In view of this, we concluded that the way education is represented and demonstrated in “Carregadoras de Sonhos” involves the display of poor working conditions, double or even triple work shifts, which can harm the quality of education due to teacher fatigue, and this happens due to the gap in pay and lack of appreciation for teachers. In “Atravessa a Vida”, the way education is represented involves understanding that phenomenon from a broader perspective.