Memory, forgottening and refusing of the past

social connections with the teaching practice

Abstract

The Oral History methodology is a resource that allows the researcher-teacher to delve into the
narratives of stories and experiences of people who do not have media coverage, represented here by poor youths evaded from school in the city of Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil. The methodology is part of the individual discourse, however it is understood that such discourse is a social representation, the result of a construction of collective, historical and cultural origin. In this bias, memory and forgetfulness constitute the scope for the investigation of the pedagogical practice of teachers alongside the youth cultural. We conclude that late modernity has produced a crisis of historicity and temporality among the poor young people who have escaped from school.