Essa dissertação de mestrado resulta de uma pesquisa teórica, na qual a pesquisadora valeu-se de suas experiências pessoais como educadora, aluna, contadora e ouvinte de estórias para pensar a narração de estórias como sendo uma prática relacionada com uma educação de sensibilidade. Trata-se de um estudo das dimensões estéticas e artísticas da literatura de tradição oral que remete à discussão da atual função da narração de estórias dentro do âmbito escolar. Parte-se do pressuposto de que as estórias de ensinamento da tradição oral são obras de arte, de tempos imemoriais, compostas por uma dinâmica de imagens arquetípicas articuladas, sob a forma de metáforas, em uma narrativa. Acredita-se que, ao entrar em contato com essa sintaxe de metáforas, o aluno-ouvinte terá a possibilidade de, por meio do despertar de uma ação imaginante e não de uma audição passiva, ter uma experiência imaginativa de natureza estética, organizadora e integralizadora, capaz de propiciar um momento de intenso aprendizado. Um aprendizado no qual aquilo que se aprende está diretamente relacionado à descoberta e à construção de nossa humanidade, que se dá por ressonância, a partir de diálogos significativos entre as imagens internas que habitam as estórias e as que habitam os ouvintes. Por imagens internas, entende-se que são as imagens arquetípicas que preservam e revelam nossa humanidade e que estão ancoradas em nossa corporeidade. Nesses diálogos, destaca-se a importância de professores e contadores de estórias como agentes de cultura, cuja presença humana intermedia e possibilita o contato de alunos e ouvintes com suas heranças culturais. Como base teórica, utilizou-se obras de filósofos, antropólogos, educadores, poetas e contadores de estórias, dentre os mais significativos: Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Dewey, Freinet e Cecília Meireles, sendo tomado como elementos norteadores dessa dissertação, o trabalho e os textos de Marcos Ferreira Santos e Regina Machado. A partir de dados recolhidos, ao atuar como contadora de estórias, e de observações feitas em aulas de Língua Portuguesa, em escolas de Ensino Fundamental da rede pública, foram tecidas algumas conclusões. Dentre elas está a constatação de que, nesses ambientes educativos, ainda ocorre um aproveitamento apenas superficial de obras de cunho literário. Quanto à narração de estórias, além do aproveitamento superficial dos contos, constatou-se também uma preocupação com a instrumentalização dessa prática, que, em geral, é tida como uma mera forma de aquietamento e entretenimento dos alunos, quando esta pode servir a um papel nobre na formação do ser humano. Ademais de restabelecer vínculos com nossa ancestralidade, a narração de estórias propicia um aprendizado imaginativo, no qual nossa humanidade ganha corpo, cores, sentidos e significados ao entrar em contato com as metáforas articuladas em uma narrativa. Narrativas cujo principal objetivo é ensinar o outro, colocando-o em sua própria sina, levando-o, em termos socráticos, a tornar-se o que é. / This master dissertation results from a theoretical research where the researcher has used her personal experiences as educator, student, listener and storyteller to think the storytelling as a practice related to an education of sensibility. It studies the aesthetic and artistic dimensions of literature of oral tradition that remits to a discussion about the function of storytelling within the school environment nowadays. It is presupposed that the teaching stories from the literature of oral tradition are works of art, from immemorial times, composed by a dynamic arrangement of archetypical images, under the form of metaphors, joined together in a narrative. It is believed that when the listeners or students get in touch with this syntax made of metaphors, they will have the possibility, by the awakening of an imagining action and not by a passive reception, to have their own imaginative experience of an aesthetic nature, therefore an organizing and integrating experience able to create an intense moment of learning. A kind of learning in which the learned thing is straightly related to the discovery and the building of their humanity, and that happens by resonance, from the significant dialogues that can be engaged between the inner images that live inside the stories and the ones that live inside of each listener. The inner images are the archetypical images that preserve and reveal our humanity and that lie in our corporality. In these dialogues it is emphasized the importance of teachers and storytellers as cultural agents whose human presence intermediates and makes possible the contact of students and listeners with their own cultural heritages. As theoretical bases, works from philosophers, anthropologists, educators, poets and storytellers were used, principally: Bachelard, Merleau-Ponty, Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Dewey, Freinet and Cecília Meireles, considering that the work and the texts of Marcos Ferreira Santos and Regina Machado were used as guiding elements for the elaboration of this dissertation. From the collected data, gathered by the researcher while acting as a storyteller, and from her observations made in Portuguese classes of public schools, some conclusions were drawn; we emphasize the verification that, in most of these educational places, there is still a superficial use of literary works. As for storytelling, besides the teaching stories have been underused, it was noticed that there is a tendency in transforming them into a pedagogical instrument. The storytelling is, in general, seen as a mere form of having students quiet and entertained, when, in fact, it can play a noble part in the human being educational process. This practice has the power of recreating the ties with our ancestral soul. It makes possible an imaginative learning, in which our humanity receives consistence, colors, directions and significance, as long as we get in touch with these metaphors joined together in a narrative. Narratives which their mainly objective is teaching the other, is putting the learners in their own way, and to conduct them, in socratical terms, to become what they really are.

Este trabalho é uma reflexão acerca da arte-educação e das histórias de tradição oral em suas relações com os conceitos de experiência e aprendizagem. O ponto de partida é a experiência da Escola de Arte Granada, localizada no interior do estado do Rio de Janeiro, na qual o trabalho é realizado a partir da integração de diversas linguagens artísticas com a arte de contar histórias. As questões trazidas pelos autores que tratam da arte-educação propiciam uma reflexão sobre o que compreendemos pelas duas palavras que compõem o termo \'arte-educação\'. A observação da Escola Granada, a partir de entrevistas com as educadoras da escola, revela o uso dos contos de tradição oral como material educativo que continua sempre atual e pode ser usado pelo ser humano em seu processo de desenvolvimento. A reflexão sobre os contos conduz ao estudo da tradição oral e ao conceito de educação na cultura tradicional. Tal concepção é relacionada a certas propostas visionárias sobre as mudanças necessárias na educação para o século XXI. / This work is a reflection about art-education and stories from the oral tradition, in their connection to the concepts of experience and learning. The starting point is the experience of Escola de Arte Granada, located in the countryside of Rio de Janeiro, where the work is developed starting from the integration of various artistic languages with the art of storytelling. The questions brought about by the authors who consider arteducation provide us with a reflection about what we understand by the two words that compose the term \'art-education\'. The observation of Escola Granada, arising from the interviews with the school\'s educators, reveals the usage of traditional tales as an educative material, which is always up-to-date and can be used by the human being in the process of development. The reflection about these tales leads us to the study of oral tradition and the concept of education in traditional cultures. This conception is related to certain visionary proposals regarding the necessary changes for 21st century education.

Este trabalho é uma reflexão acerca da Arte de Contar Histórias como uma importante ferramenta artística e educativa na formação do ser humano de todas as épocas, vista especialmente em suas relações com as questões trazidas pelo universo contemporâneo da cibercultura. Ao problematizar e dialogar com a emergência e complexidade desse universo, a função social do contador de histórias, sua arte e seu papel formador encontram visões divergentes, antagônicas e polêmicas trazendo assim discussões pertinentes para seu lugar e importância na vida atual. O que é importante saber para contar histórias no mundo de hoje? Qual a relevância da arte de contar histórias em um mundo mediado por telas? Qual o impacto da cibercultura no universo do contador de histórias e o impacto do trabalho do contador de histórias na Era Digital? Tais questões foram discutidas partindo de imagens significativas que serviram de metáforas para o aprofundamento dos problemas bem como do depoimento de contadores e ouvintes de histórias, teóricos da comunicação, antropólogos, filósofos, poetas e educadores. / This work is a reflection about the Art of Storytelling as a major artistic and educational tool in the educational process of human beings of all ages, especially seen in its relations with the questions raised by the contemporary universe of cyberculture. When discussing and questioning the emergence and complexity of this universe, the social role of storyteller, his art and his educational role, we came across different, antagonistic and controversial sights bringing relevant discussions to his place and importance in the present life. What is important to know in order to tell stories in today\'s world? What is the relevance of storytelling in a world mediated by screens? What is the impact of cyberculture in the storytelling universe and the impact of the storyteller\'s work in the Digital Age? Such issues were discussed starting from meaningful images that served as metaphors for the deepening of the problems as well as the testimony of storytellers and listeners, communication theorists, anthropologists, philosophers, poets and educators

Book review of the collection titled ´East African literature: Essays on Written and Oral Tradition´ edited by J.K.S. Makokha, Egara Kabaji and Dominica Dipio

Ce mémoire veut démontrer que le film de famille ainsi que ses conditions de réception empruntent, et ce de façon instinctive, au fonctionnement communicatif et rassembleur de la tradition orale. La parole, l’oralité, devrait être considérée comme le catalyseur de la mise en commun du souvenir que le film de famille suscite. Elle est le véhicule de l’interprétation du message du film de famille en tant que discours familial. D’ailleurs, si l’on compare l’influence des deux registres sensoriels présents dans le médium cinématographique (le visuel et l’oralité), le film de famille reprend davantage les modalités de l’oralité. Conséquemment, son contenu, sa forme et sa finalité correspondent à la définition d’un cinéma de l’oralité, un cinéma de la parole défini par Germain Lacasse. En raison d’une absence de travaux portant spécifiquement sur le sujet, l’objectif de cette recherche est de rapprocher et de définir davantage ces liens qui se sont tissés entre la tradition orale et le film de famille. Dans ce dessein, l’approche théorique développée est basée sur les théories de la tradition orale, sur la théorie de la mémoire collective de Maurice Halbwach et sur les rapports entre le cinéma et l’oralité. Ainsi, les aspects suivants sont abordés : Le rôle de l’oralité dans la constitution de la mémoire familiale, l’apport de l’oralité dans les médias stimulateurs de mémoire familiale et finalement, la forme et le contenu du film de famille en tant qu’aspects distinctifs du cinéma oral. Quatre extraits de films de famille québécois des années 20 à aujourd’hui y sont également analysés. / This research wants to demonstrate that the home movie and his reception context seem to be deeply marked by oral tradition and it’s communicative and social system. Orality should be considered as the family remembrance catalyst in home movies. This spoken word is the main transporter of the interpretation of home movie message as the family discourse. In fact, if we try to evaluate which one of the sensory mediums is more important for family communication (visual or oral medium), we would find out that orality plays a bigger part. Consequently, its form, content and finality correspond to the “oral cinema” definition of Germain Lacasse. Because of an actual lack of literature on this specific subject, the purpose of this study is to connect and define theories of oral tradition and home movie. The theoretical approach developed is based on oral tradition theory, Halbwach’s collective memory theory and on the relations between cinema and orality. Therefore, several aspects will be discussed : the contribution of orality in domestic memory constitution, the orality involvement in family memory stimulators or medias, and finally, the analysis of home movie’s form and content as an oral cinema. In addition, four sequences of Quebec made home movies since the twenties until our days are studied.

Dans un village du Haut Atlas marocain, une fête abandonnée depuis plus de quinze ans a été renouvelée en 2010, attirant des journalistes, des anthropologues et des associatifs. L’étude du renouvellement de la tradition lors de cette fête, au niveau du discours, du contenu des performances et des interactions sociales, nous permet de réinterroger les modèles théoriques de la fabrication de tradition. Un processus sous-jacent apparaît comme la base de ce renouvellement, la singularisation, une forme particulière de résistance à la culture de l’État-nation ou à toute autre culture hégémonique. La singularisation est présente dans chaque élément de la fête. Elle définit un certain rapport au passé par lequel celui-ci est un miroir inversé du présent, mis en scène comme objet de perte. Elle définit également le choix culturel entre deux traditions musicales présentes dans la région. Ces mécanismes reposent sur une nouvelle logique spatiale qui résulte des récents changements économiques et politiques au Maroc. Dans cette nouvelle organisation spatiale où le pouvoir se situe en dehors du local, les femmes sont marginalisées et les figures intermédiaires deviennent le centre du renouvellement de la tradition. L’étude de la singularisation permet de mettre en lumière des processus de fabrication de l’identité, de dégager les conditions de survie culturelle d’un groupe, de caractériser le rapport entre un événement culturel et le changement social, et de préciser les modèles théoriques sur la tradition. / In a village of the High Atlas in Morocco, a celebration which has been abandoned for more than fifteen years has been renewed in 2010, bringing along journalists, anthropologists and militant associatives. The study of the renewal of tradition in this celebration, through discourse, performances and social interaction, allows us to put into question the models on the fabrication of tradition. The underlying process of this renewal is singularisation, a specific form of resistance to the nationalist culture or any other cultural hegemony. Singularisation is present in every element of the celebration. It determines a specific link to the past by which it appears as the reversed image of the present, staged as object of loss. It also determines cultural choices such as the one between two musical traditions. Such mechanisms respond to a new spatial organization which is a direct consequence of the recent economic and political changes in Morocco. In this organization, power is no more in the local but outside the community’s territory. Women are marginalized and intermediary figures become the center of the renewal of tradition. The study of singularisation enables to explain how identity is made, to determine conditions for the cultural survival of a group, to characterize the relation between a cultural event and social change, and to bring new elements to the theories of tradition.

In the essay, "From Mimism to Music in the Child" (1935), Jousse, the French linguistic anthropologist, * describes the process whereby instinctive learning takes place and develops into cognitive motor skills in the Child; * traces the connections between the stages of learning and the skills acquired by the Child. These skills include gestural mimic imitation, drawing, listening, speaking, and musical expression; * makes specific recommendations about the process of teaching the Child; * relates the stages in the early learning processes in the Child to the development globally and universally of the anthropos; * demonstrates the relationship between Man and his fellows, both as individuals and as expression of cultural distinction, and between Man and the universe; * comments on the distinction between human and animal learning capacities; * explains the roles of key features in human expression; *explains aspects of cultural and linguistic change; * comments on cultural and linguistic change. In this research-essay, I am * attempting to clarify, in various degrees, all of the above: the learning issues receive more attention than do the rest; * attempting to identify the similarities and differences between the thinking and views on learning of Jousse with those particularly of Rudolf Laban, and incidentally of Montessori and Lenneberg; * demonstrating an 'Oral-Style text'. The Introduction to this research-essay summarises the thinking of Jousse and Laban. The Body of the study: * provides biographical information about Jousse and Laban; * explains the difficulties and problems encountered with the text of the essay "From Mimism to Music in the Child"; * comments on the nature and operation of Oral-Style texts and their cognitive and affective influence upon the reader; * contextualises and interprets the text of the essay, "From Mimism and Music in the Child". The Conclusion adds comments, and suggests areas for further study and investigation. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, 1995.

For sixty-five years hardly anyone in the English-speaking world was aware of the anthropological theories of Marcel Jousse, a twentieth century Jesuit scholar. In 1990, Jousse's seminal work, Le style oral rythmique et mnemotechnique chez les verbo-moteurs. (The rhythmic and mnemotechnique oral style of the verbo-motors), was translated into English and given the name The Oral Style. His anthropologie du geste, called in this study the anthropology of geste, presented his discovery of the universal anthropological laws governing human expression: mimism, bilateralism and formulism. Jousse had sought to understand the anthropological roots of oral style, in particular the phenomenal memory of oral style peoples. In this dissertation, Jousse's theories are summarised and his anthropological laws are used to determine whether three eucharistic prayers of the Roman rite contain elements of oral style expression. The Roman Canon, Eucharistic Prayer 1 and Eucharistic Prayer for Children 1 are set out in binary and ternary balancings. An attempt is made to show that written style expression, an inheritance from the Greeks, houses in its extraordinary complexity the very oral style elements it appears to have superseded. The assertion made is that written style, with its predilection for subordination, actually conserves, preserves and perpetuates oral style balancings, not only in the simple sentence (what Jousse calls the propositional geste), but also in clauses, phrases, words, and sound devices. Support is given to T. J. Talley's view that the Jewish nodeh lekah (thanksgiving) and not the berakah (blessing) is the prayer source that influenced the structure of the early Christians' eucharist (thanksgiving in Greek). The expressions of thanksgiving that are a distinguishing feature of anaphoras from the 1st century AD onwards, continue to shape the eucharistic prayers today. This is offered as one reason why, in a reconstruction of Eucharistic Prayer for Children 1 presented at the end of Chapter 5, it is possible to balance one recitative with another, and the recitation of one prayer component with another. The dissertation concludes by recommending that oral studies of the Christian liturgies of East and West be pursued as they have much to contribute to the orality-literacy debate not only in the matter of liturgical language but also in gaining an appreciation of other gestes of worship. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1994.

Examines the character construction of the Hesiodic ‘farmer’ in the scholarship of Works and Days. Questions Hesiod’s intimacy of agricultural knowledge: was he a practical farmer or a non-farming poet? Using my farming experience I question the adequacy of the information in Works and Days for use as a farming manual. Lines 635-640 - Hesiod’s description of the climatic conditions of Ascra in respect to farming are set against soil properties (soil biochemistry as an evaluating tool) and agricultural responses (farming methods of other cultures) shows Hesiod to have little grasp of the farming methods each situation requires. Text comparatives: Fan Shêng-Chih Shu an ancient Chinese agricultural text detailed with attention to soil fertility. Supporting ancient texts: Cato on Agriculture, Columella on Agriculture, Theophrastus on Plants, Xenophon Oeconomics and Homer’s Odyssey for references to dung and soil fertility. The vague farming information suggests a non-personalized experience - the Hesiodic ‘farmer’ is probably not a practical farmer at all.

Examines the character construction of the Hesiodic ‘farmer’ in the scholarship of Works and Days. Questions Hesiod’s intimacy of agricultural knowledge: was he a practical farmer or a non-farming poet? Using my farming experience I question the adequacy of the information in Works and Days for use as a farming manual. Lines 635-640 - Hesiod’s description of the climatic conditions of Ascra in respect to farming are set against soil properties (soil biochemistry as an evaluating tool) and agricultural responses (farming methods of other cultures) shows Hesiod to have little grasp of the farming methods each situation requires. Text comparatives: Fan Shêng-Chih Shu an ancient Chinese agricultural text detailed with attention to soil fertility. Supporting ancient texts: Cato on Agriculture, Columella on Agriculture, Theophrastus on Plants, Xenophon Oeconomics and Homer’s Odyssey for references to dung and soil fertility. The vague farming information suggests a non-personalized experience - the Hesiodic ‘farmer’ is probably not a practical farmer at all.