A diversidade de vozes na constituição de um curso de Pedagogia: da idealização à materialização

Abstract

The present research, which is inserted in the field of Applied Linguistics, had as objective to investigate how the official and institutional voices materialize in the constitution of the institutional objective, based on four activities related to the operationalization of a Higher Education Institution (HEI), headquartered in São Paulo’s capital. The study discusses about the demands for opening a HEI in Brazil, which involves a set of steps linked to the fulfillment of legal requirements dictated by the Ministry of Education and its respective bodies. This set, however, constitutes only one of the voices within a legal hierarchy that outlines norms to be contemplated by HEIs. The other voices in the constitution of the HEI objective are represented by institutional documents and individuals involved in the inaugural class activity. In this sense, this study issue consisted of the two-dimensional analysis that integrates, on the one hand, legislative and regulatory elements coming from the Ministry of Education and its representative bodies (official voices), and, on the other, the institutional voices. Finally, it is an analysis not only documentary, but also subjective and focused on institutional purposes, seeking to investigate how these two discursive dimensions are interlaced. The theoretical basis of this research is based on the Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (VIGOTSKI, 2001; LEONTIEV, 2014), which elucidates the context of individual and also collective actions, placing them in the social, historical, political and cultural spheres. The discursive questions were dealt from the understanding that dialogism is a condition of discourse and the link between language and social life, since language is a social, historical and ideological phenomenon by nature. The elucidation of the concept of superdiversity (BLOMMAERT, 2011; VERTOVEC, 2007) allowed us to trace the social profile (SANTOS, M., 2001; MOITA LOPES and BASTOS, 2010) of HEI in today’s globalized scenario. The field research officially took place from March 21st to May 16th, 2016. The procedures of production and data collection included field notes, interviews recorded through audio, filming and photographic records, as well as consultation of institutional and legal documents. The analysis procedures aimed at the understanding the utterances materialized in the inaugural class activity (ENGESTRÖM, 1999), which involved the theme of the institutional objective, the investigative focus of this study. The data were constructed in a collaborative way (MAGALHÃES, 2010) during the interactions, and then analyzed and interpreted in the enunciative-discursive perspective and language (BAKHTIN, 2014), articulated to the argumentative view (LIBERALI, 2013). The results of the research indicated moments of convergences and contradictions in voices' discourses. Thus, the investigative process allowed the identification of the challenges for the fulfillment of the institutional objective, in which antagonistic voices stood out arguably to choose one way over another