A FIGURA DOS MESTRES E DAS MESTRAS DO BOI DE PINDARÉ: EDUCAÇÃO, MEMÓRIA, PERTENCIMENTO E ORALIDADE
Memory, Belonging and Orality" investigated the educational practices of the two formal Masters of the Boi de Pindaré: Master Castro and Marter João do Sá Viana told through their identity narratives and of the subjects who participate.The trajectories of the masters were studied from comings and goings, in a process of ruptures, sutures that is natural in the identity of the human being.The importance of these Masters cannot be highlighted as non-formal educators of the popular culure of Maranhão because it is through their teaching that the elements contained in the tradition of Bumba meu boi of Maranhão are propagated, which were full of meanings and full of symbologies and as memories and knowledge revealed a network of knowledge built and reconstructed, enabling, an attentive relationship and exchange of knowledge through orality and pedagogical practices that arouse provocations and dialogism.In this context, the female role is studied through the empowerment of women who make the Boi de Pindaré, recognizing their leadership within the nuclei that act and the visibility of their actions as propagators of tradition.Non-formal teaching is carried out in rehearsals, during presentations and mainly in the educational space at headquarters, which is open to the entire community as a social and cultural place for coexistence, teaching and learning.Documentary analysis and oral history were used as a methodology, based on interviews with masters and players of the Ox of Pindaré.It is concluded that these singing Masters play an important role as non-formal educators of Maranhão popular culture, because it is throung their teachings that the knowledge, contained in the tradition of Bumba my ox of Maranhão is propagated, which has popular elements full of meanings and full of symbologies and memories and Knowledge.The research revealed a network of reconstructed knowledge, which enable connections and exchange of knowledge PUC-Rio -Certificação Digital Nº 1812187/CA through orality and pedagogical practices that arouse provocations and diaologism.