INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS 2021-2024
Amazonian Cultures, Narratives and Identities Research Line - CNIA
Ongoing Research Projects
Amazonian cartographies: accounts of cities, rivers and forests in history and literature
This project aims to bring together research that focuses on issues related to Amazonian cities in their real and imagined formations and continuities, in their identity, architectural, geo-historical, heritage, artistic and normative dimensions, based on interdisciplinary approaches in the areas of humanities and literature. Involving in these approaches the dimensions of the lived and the shared, of contrasts and consensus, which encompass the multiple living and dead people in multi-temporal relationships. All of this is based on the multiple territorialities of the Amazon in its southern western part, in a world environment marked by a complex network of relationships involving the dimensions of culture and nature, which are not thought of here in the easy game of recurring dualisms. The idea is to think about real and idealized cities in their historical, literary, geographical, artistic, cultural, architectural and heritage dimensions. Most Amazonian cities are initially formed through values - governed by law or custom - which often come into conflict with the constituted norms emanating from the idealization of “Eurocentric” cities.
Teaching staff:
Francisco Bento da Silva (Project Manager)
Elderson Melo de Miranda
Gerson Rodrigues de Albuquerque
From the global peripheries: sounds, writings and images of otherness
This project aims to cover a broad spectrum of research actions, aimed at the critical study of literary, musical, imagetic and artistic texts and discourses produced from alterity. Both critical approaches to exogenous representations of what is perceived as “Other” and affirmative investigations focused on self-determined productions, phenomena and practices produced by this same “Other” are contemplated. Although the focus on the Western Amazon is primary and unavoidable, contributions interested in the study of other realities will be considered, such as Latin America in general, the Brazilian Northeast, Africa, the Mediterranean (and in particular the larger islands and Southern Italy).
Teaching staff:
Marcelo Messina (Project Manager)
Discourses of identity and artistic endeavors in the South-Western Amazon
The central aim of this project is to investigate the discursive and identity configurations of artistic production in the Acre Amazon in the first decades of the 21st century, identifying permanence and changes in the main issues in relation to previous historical periods. With a focus on artistic production, this research seeks to problematize narratives about the Acre Amazon, the forest, rubber tappers, river dwellers and indigenous peoples, as well as their convergences and conflicts with other social groupings, and city-forest relations. Initially, the research has two explicit political purposes: to analyse models of work and artistic productions in different languages of the arts that have been organized by groups or individuals in the South-Western Amazon; and to discuss how, in the first two decades of the 21st century, a non-harmonious mixture emerged between artistic practices and their makers.
Teaching staff:
Elderson Melo de Miranda (Project Manager)
The central focus of the project is the nucleation and expansion of research and teaching activities, studies, events and bibliographic production articulated around the structuring axis: Amazonian languages and cultures. The aim is to follow investigative paths that open up space for dialog between different types of knowledge or ways of producing and transmitting knowledge.
Teaching staff:
Queila Barbosa lopes (Project Manager)
Francielle Maria Modesto Mendes
Francisco Aquinei Timoteo Queirós
Francisco Bento da Silva
Gerson Rodrigues de Albuquerque
Maria de Jesus Morais
Paula Tatiana da Silva Antunes
Shelton Lima de Souza
Valda Inês Fontenele Pessoa
Media, representations and narratives: studies on the Acre Amazon
The aim of this research project is to reflect on the representations of the Brazilian Amazon and its peoples in the most different media (television, news sites, blogs, digital social networks, printed newspapers, among others), constructed by the narrative, mainly of foreigners, of others who have arrived in the region throughout its formation process. Since the first narratives about the region, still with the travel chroniclers in the 16th century, it was already treated by the dichotomy of paradise/green hell, a distant place, demographic emptiness, a sign of backwardness. These concepts have been refined over time. In view of this, we intend to carry out research analyzing how these different media contribute to the maintenance and dissemination of these ways of thinking about the Brazilian Amazon, especially Acre. The study is linked to the research group Media, Imaginary and Representation: a cartography of the Amazon (MIRCA), registered on the CNPq Groups Platform since 2016, which, in turn, aims to discuss the representations and imaginaries about the Brazilian Amazon and its people, constructed by the narrative of the most diverse types of media.
Teaching staff:
Francielle Maria Modesto Mendes (Project Manager)
Narrative, Literature and Journalism: for an epistemology against hegemonic accounts
The research project “Narrative, Literature and Journalism: for an epistemology that reverses hegemonic accounts” seeks to reflect on how subaltern subjects are represented in novels, reports and journalistic news, with the South-Western Amazon as its locus. The perspective outlined in this research project is thus directed towards a perspective of alternative sources, pointing to new intelligibilities and problems about social reality, both in the context of the novel and in the type of journalism produced in Acre.
Teaching staff:
Francisco Aquinei Timoteo Queirós (Project Manager)
The central focus of this project is the interest in investigating and problematizing different ways of narrating, apprehending, feeling, living the named Amazonian worlds and their relationship with other worlds or the world as a whole, starting from the notion that places and localities, spatialities and temporalities, beings, natures/cultures, languages, humanities/animalities, languages, among others, are always historical, moving and the object of permanent meanings, representations and discursive and non-discursive practices. What comes into question is problematizing perceptions and broadening the analytical focus around themes, concepts and ways of conceiving different temporalities/spatialities of today's worlds, that is, the times and spaces of our contemporaneity, which brings us back to the postulates of Édouard Glissant (2005) and his (po)ethics of the relationship, of displacement, of wandering, of movement that invites us to value the search for difference, for otherness, rather than the illusory security of the identity appeal and of system thinking. Dentre as temáticas prioritárias a pesquisa enfoca a relação natureza/cultura e cidade; oralidade, tradição, poesia oral e literatura oral; arte e estética da arte; filosofia e linguagem; linguagem e identidade; história e literatura; lutas pela terra e movimentos sociais nas Amazônias; linguagem e cultura; patrimônios materiais e imateriais; memória e patrimônio; corpo e linguagem; o fantástico literário; memória, cotidiano e poder; religiosidades amazônicas.
Teaching staff:
Gerson Rodrigues de Albuquerque (Project Manager)
Elderson Melo de Miranda
Simone Cordeiro Oliveira Pinheiro
Completed Research Projects [as of 12/31/2022]
Comparative and thematic studies in literature and human rights
Violence is a constant in relationships involving the state, subjects and power. Presented in a variety of ways, sometimes veiled, sometimes explicit and often denied, violence permeates these social connections, whether in an attempt to maintain a certain order - here we are referring to state policies - or to combat a certain state policy - when individuals try to deconstruct these governmental behaviors, using practices of resistance. However, in several episodes in history, violence has become a routine, instituted through practices that violate Human Rights (HR). The overall aim of the project is to discuss, in a thematic, comparative and counter-hegemonic way, how novels from Brazilian literature, from other Latin American countries and also from Africa represent conduct that contradicts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Among the specific objectives are: to reflect on the function of human rights in contemporary times; to identify different practices of violence that contradict and disrespect the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; to look at how practices of disrespect for human rights are represented in the novels to be selected for the corpus; to look at the forms of resistance that the subjects who suffer from such acts of violence use in order to try to preserve their dignity and, often, to survive.
Myth and history in the southwestern Amazon
The initial aim of this project is to offer some keys for analyzing the ayahuasca origin myths told by some “Pano do Sudeste” groups, i.e. those who traditionally lived in the areas of the upper Juruá River, upper Purus River and their tributaries. The intention is to restore these narratives to the “transformation sets” (in the sense specified by Lévi-Strauss) of which they form part, and then try to illuminate the relationships between the different sets of myths, and between them and the historical narratives in the colonial archive. In this way, we hope to make visible landscapes of thought that cannot be perceived when we consider these myths in isolation. Starting from a corpus made up of myths told by narrators from different indigenous peoples in the southwest of the Amazon and recorded in different monographs, collections, books by indigenous authors and anthropological works, the proposal is to analyze how the relations of transformation between the myths can be understood in relation to what can be known about historical developments in the region.
Language(s) and Teacher Training - LFD
Ongoing Research Projects
Lexicon Sciences: education, languages and cultures
The main objective of the “Sciences of the Lexicon: education, languages and cultures” project is to carry out research into the lexical sciences, lexicology, terminology and dialectology, using different methodological approaches that allow reflection on the contributions of these scientific disciplines to education, languages and cultures. During the period of execution of this project (2021-2024), the Linguistic Corpus of Acre - CLiA will be created, a corpus of study that will concentrate linguistic materials - oral and written, representative of Amazonian languages and cultures. From this reference corpus, it will be possible to derive numerous studies relating to lexical units in different areas of research.
Teaching staff:
Simone Cordeiro Oliveira Pinheiro (Project Manager)
Shelton Lima de Souza
Enunciative complexity in discursive practices
This project joins studies concerned with enunciative complexity in discursive practices (oral and literate), with the intention of contributing to discussions that specifically involve the teaching of writing in academic and school practices. The aim is to describe how this complexity is represented in the circulation that the enunciator makes through oral and literate practices, in discursive genres. In order to develop this discussion, we will focus on descriptive aspects of enunciative complexity in written texts. Thus, this work is of a descriptive-interpretative nature and is based on the theoretical-methodological assumptions of Dialogical Discourse Analysis (BAKHTIN and the Circle), on the studies of Enunciative Heterogeneities (AUTHIER-REVUZ) and the Heterogeneity of Writing (CORRÊA), since they indicate how the one who enunciates shows/projects in the use of language.
Teaching staff:
Aline Suelen Santos (Project Manager)
Paula Tatiana da Silva-Antunes
Digitalities and Language Learning - DALI
The aim of this research project is to understand how teachers in training/service use digital tools for language teaching and learning in the context of the southwestern Amazon, investigating the level of autonomy and literacy required for the effective development of language teacher competences to meet the real needs of the educational context and how this use constitutes and is materialized in identities. In the development of the activities, both literacy and the development of autonomy will be considered as possible indispensable elements for learning through digital technologies to occur effectively, based on the hypothesis that without the construction of autonomy and literacy by the learners, digital technologies and the teacher will be ineffective in the learning space that opts for the insertion of these technologies. In this context, the research problem was defined in the following question: how is the use of digital technologies characterized in language teaching and learning contexts in the southwest of the Amazon in the current scenario and how is the use of language in digital media related to Amazonian identity? The general objective is to understand how teachers in training/activity use digital technologies for language teaching and learning in the Amazonian context, more precisely in Acre, investigating the level of autonomy and literacy necessary for the effective development of teacher competencies, appropriate to the real needs present in the educational context of language teaching and promoting meaningful learning, as well as the relationship between the use of digital technologies and Amazonian identity. The specific objectives include: analyzing the types of digital technologies used for language teaching and learning; identifying experiences in the use of digital technologies for teaching and learning purposes in the context of the Southwest Amazon; pointing out literacy practices used in the teaching and learning process mediated by digital technologies; analyzing language genres circulating on the Internet that can act as facilitators in language learning; relating language uses to the identity practices that constitute Amazonian subjects in a digital environment; investigating attitudes that can contribute to the development of autonomous learning through the use of digital technologies.
Teaching staff:
Queila Barbosa Lopes (Project Manager)
Enunciative studies: subjectivity and alterity
Centered on a dialogical and intersubjective perspective of language, the project “Enunciative studies: subjectivity and alterity” has enunciation at its core. Its focus of interest is: a) the analysis of the literary text, with an enunciative bias; b) theoretical and practical issues, such as authorship, subjectivity, alterity, chronotope, discursive genres. The project is theoretically and methodologically based on three authors: Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975), Émile Benveniste (1902-1976) and Michel Foucault (1926-1984). Benveniste's perspective of enunciation is aimed at the act of insertion of the speaking subject into language, how he enunciates, through the survey and analysis of linguistic marks of this activity (person, time, place and modalities of interlocution essentially). The marks of enunciation present in the discourse make it possible to reconstruct the enunciative act, i.e. the traces of the act in the product.
Teaching staff:
Juciane dos Santos Cavalheiro (Project Manager)
For this research, we focused on areas of interest that encompass “linguistic analysis and literacy in relation to teacher training and performance and their interfaces with the production of teaching materials for basic education; teaching and learning of Mother Tongue (ML) [and] Foreign Languages (FL)” (PROGRAMME, 2021). Based on this, we argue that the academic training of language and pedagogy professionals should cover not only the discussion of official documents, such as the National Common Curriculum Base (BRASIL, 2018) and pedagogical projects for degree courses, but also subjects of global interest, such as the environment, politics and racial issues. From this perspective, the classroom work of these teachers should enable their students to refract/reflect (VOLÓCHINOV, 2017) on these themes, with a view to taking a critical and more participatory stance in a constantly changing society, as seen in the BNCC (BRASIL, 2018). Thus, based on the guidelines of national documents in the educational sphere, as well as official documents in our context, we question how themes of general interest should support the training of teachers in the areas of Literature and Pedagogy. Therefore, our general objective is to investigate the linguistic-discursive aspects of discourse genres that permeate the training of language teachers, focusing mainly on official educational documents and texts from the media sphere, in order to think about the integral development of these teachers.
Teaching staff:
Paula Tatiana da Silva-Antunes (Project Manager)
The object of study of this research project is the curricular cultures of teacher training within the institutions that have this purpose and the work of teachers in the context of public schools of Basic Education in the cities, countryside and forests of the state of Acre, understanding that despite the will to truth that tries to homogenize, name, classify, box and frame the training units and schools as an ideological apparatus of the national state (ALTHUSSER, 1985), many of these institutions manage to emerge from the displacements (FOUCAULT, 1996) that they manage to establish. From this perspective, this research project has the characteristic of an umbrella, which integrates sub-projects under our guidance, developed in the sphere of the Graduate Program in Letters: Language and Identity, with the purpose of observing, describing, highlighting, problematizing and analyzing epistemologies that permeate curricular practices in the field of teacher training and performance in the state of Acre. Based on this investigative design, we established a set of problems that are outlined as follows: How are the curricular practices of initial and continuing teacher training established within public institutions in the state of Acre, and how do these teachers work in the different schools of the municipal and state Basic Education networks? What epistemologies permeate the curricular practices of teacher training and performance? What are the narratives that constitute teachers' identities, both in the specific field of training and in their work in basic education? What do teachers want and what are they silencing? What discourses are produced to institute and develop educational policies? What curricular cultures permeate training practices? What languages circulate and constitute the curricular practices of schools in the cities, the countryside and the forests (riverside schools and indigenous schools)? What conditions are imposed on students and teachers, considering the “other” (non-westernized/modernized) in the space of training and practice? What intercultural curricular practices emerge and take place in the different schools? The general aim of the project is to analyze the curricular cultures of initial and continuing teacher training, and teacher performance, in the context of teacher training institutions, highlighting teacher performance in public basic education schools in the cities, fields and forests of the state of Acre.
Teaching staff:
Valda Inês Fontenele Pessoa (Project Manager)
Elizabeth Miranda de Lima
Territories, borders and the construction of identity discourses in the Amazon
The focus of this project is to discuss the intertwining of the terms territories and borders in the construction of identity discourses about Amazonian people and lands. The general aim of the research is to reflect on the identity universe of Amazonian peoples in terms of official discourses and the discourses of the different subjects who inhabit their lands and waters. The specific objectives include to analyze the construction of identity in the discourses of the centenarians of Pando and Madre de Dios, and to contrast this with the discourse of Acreanity; to carry out an analysis of the identity discourses developed by indigenous leaders in this border region; analyze the scenario of Afro-Brazilian religions, based on the recovery of the historical memory of the umbanda and candomblé terreiros in the Amazon; analyze the discourses surrounding the ayahuasca religions that have the Amazon as their founding places; analyze the discourses of the ‘invention’ of a nature that is present in the discourse of the Green Economy and/or sustainability in the Amazon.
Teaching staff:
Maria de Jesus Morais (Project Manager)
Francisco Bento da Silva
Throughout the development of linguistic science, reflection on linguistic/linguistic practices in relation to social environments/spaces is becoming more frequent and, consequently, new theoretical constructs related to conceptions of language(gens) are coming to the fore, which, in a way, confronts traditionally established perspectives on concepts such as language and language, especially those stemming from and strongly influenced by European Structuralism (RAJAGOPALAN, 2013). In this sense, this research project is a proposal for reflection and action on/in the face of different proposals and conceptions of language(gens) that are being presented and developed in historically excluded social spaces, and thus constructed by subjects participating in these spaces who, by extension, have suffered actions of exclusion and minoritization that prevented them from, for example, acting and existing in spaces with evident power relations such as formal educational spaces. Among these subjects, we can highlight: members of indigenous peoples, deaf people, LGBTQIA+ subjects, students/learners from peripheral and rural areas placed on the margins of large urban centers, etc. Thus, in the sense that this project proposes a reflection on how the aforementioned subjects interpret their language productions in various sociocultural productions, together with theoretical discussions, we intend to promote spaces of visibility, both in formal and non-formal teaching spaces, in which different perceptions/language productions, considered by traditional linguistic studies merely as common sense knowledge, can be highlighted for an action of reflection on language not based on the exclusion of knowledge.
Teaching staff:
Shelton Lima de Souza (Project Manager)
Andrea Martini
Ligiane Pessoa dos Santos Bonifácio
INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS 2017-2020
Research projects - Amazonian Cultures, Narratives and Identities
Literary reading in focus
Description: The project aims to reflect methodologically on literary reading, from a Barthesian view of the literary text, at different educational levels: from Basic Education to Postgraduate Studies.
Urban cartographies: accounts of cities, rivers and forests in history and literature
Description: This project focuses on the study of multiple urban images and their interlocutions with literature, history, memory and narratives of the city. Cities and forests as spaces of representation and the relationships between subjects and spaces. The forms of the urban imagination: culture and the city, literature and the city, art and the city, memory and the city, power and the city, the countryside/forest and the city. The different ways of living in the city, the struggles for the city, the social production of space and time, cultural practices and ways of living and intervening in public space by different social groups. The city, the river and the forest are related as issues of study that articulate different tangible and intangible cultural heritages, constituting important fields of study in the Amazonian, Pan-Amazonian and Indo-American contexts.
Indigenous ethnography and cultural translation in Thomas Wiffen
Description: Research project originating from the translation of the report The North-West Amazon: notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes (1915), by Thomas Whiffen, a British anthropologist who, during 1908 and 1909, explored the lands between the Içá and Japurá rivers, in the north-west of the Amazon River, and studied two linguistic groups in the region, the Bora and the Witoto, who at the time had had little contact with non-indigenous people. The focus of the research revolves around the relationship between indigenous ethnography and cultural translation and aims to address issues relating to the material and immaterial culture of the two indigenous peoples who appear in the account, as well as the linguistic, cultural and political aspects present in this travel narrative.
Teacher training for cultural diversity
Description: This project aims to create a space for the articulation and development of studies and experiences (Intercultural Laboratory), involving indigenous researchers, artists and teachers from the 16 indigenous ethnic groups currently living in Acre. Bringing together research, extension and teaching, in a transdisciplinary perspective, the various levels of training, the different areas of knowledge and the various cultures in permanent friction, producing textual marks, what is sought is to understand the possible intercultural dialogues resulting from the implementation of schools in indigenous communities in the South-Western Amazon. Experimentation, the recording of oral manifestations, documentation and reflection, through field research, workshops and seminars, will be the basis for the production and editing of texts to be broadcast in the villages and their surroundings.
Languages, Borders and Interculturality
Description: From an interdisciplinary perspective, the central focus of this research project is to promote investigations into the transit processes of different human groups on the Brazil-Peru-Bolivia tri-national border, as a way of analyzing the construction of identity discourses, paying attention to intercultural dimensions and ethnic and linguistic diversity.
Literature, teaching and regionality
Description: The project is organized from various critical articulations of the literary object and its uses for the interpretative confrontation of the phenomenon. The applicability aims to seek strategies of risk and recognition in the classroom, mainly from the literature of Amazonian regional expression.
Media, imagery and representation in South-Western Amazonia
Description: The project aims to study the imaginary and representations of the Brazilian Amazon, especially with regard to Acre. Since the first narratives about the region, still with the travel chroniclers in the 16th century, it was already treated by the dichotomy paradise/green hell, a distant place, demographic emptiness, a sign of backwardness. With this in mind, the research aims to analyze how different media contribute to the maintenance and dissemination of these concepts.
Cultural heritage in the Amazon and Pan-Amazon: the arts of doing and saying
Description: The project focuses on studies and reflections on the heritage of material and immaterial cultures of different human groups in the Amazon and Pan-Amazon, paying attention to historical and geographical temporalities, spatialities and territorialities, ways of living/thinking in forests and cities, indigenous languages and literatures, oralities, forms of contact and cultural exchanges, arts and political and aesthetic perceptions, forms and relations of power, identity narratives, relations between writing and orality, beliefs and values, religiosities and different perceptions of Amazonian life in its relationship with the world as a whole.
Paths of silence in literature
Description: The aim of this project is to identify forms of silence and their paths both in narratives of Brazilian literature and in other literatures that are pertinent to this study. In this sense, theoretical assumptions related to the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin will be essential, especially dialogism and polyphony, as well as those belonging to the field of silence, memory and identity.
Discursive practices in literary works about the Amazon: colonization and decolonization
Description: The central objective of this project is to produce research on issues related to discursive practices in literary works about the Amazon, with a view to problematizing the themes and perspectives on colonization and decolonization in different fictional representations that invent and reinvent this region for the world.
Re-territorialization processes and the green agenda in the Pan-Amazon: a study of the Brazil/Peru/Bolivia triple border
Description: The overall aim of the research project is to problematize and analyse narratives about the role played by large international conservation NGOs in the new cycle of exploitation of natural resources in the Pan-Amazon region from the end of the 20th century. On a theoretical-interpretative level, the political frontier is understood as the consecration of certain correlations of political forces and tends to hide the front (the dispute) that engendered it. These are defined as elementary, linear spatial structures, with the function of geopolitical discontinuity between national states, with the purpose of being a reference for the exercise of sovereignty and the symbolic meanings underlying it. The Language and Politics - Discourse and Ordering duo is a central element in the proposed reflections and analytical exercises.
Projects - LFLanguage(s) and Teacher Training
The argumentative construction of environmental discourse in different textual genres
Descrição: Este Projeto de Pesquisa visa a analisar a construção argumentativa do discurso ambiental em gêneros textuais diversos, examinando os recursos semântico-argumentativos, estilísticos, discursivos, enunciativos, semióticos, bem como os fatores de textualidade responsáveis pelo estabelecimento do(s) sentido(s) de gêneros literários e não literários, de temática ambiental. A delimitação do tema deve-se ao fato de a sociedade contemporânea valorizar a preservação do meio ambiente, manifestando essa atitude em textos que circulam nas diversas esferas sociais. Nossas análises linguísticas se pautarão na Estilística, na Linguística Textual, na Análise do Discurso de linha francesa, na Semântica Argumentativa e na Linguística Aplicada, dialogando, ainda, com variadas áreas do conhecimento, tais como: História, Sociologia, Antropologia, Marketing e Propaganda, Ecologia e Educação Ambiental. Dessa forma, nossa pesquisa centra-se no texto/discurso, enquanto unidade de sentido e espaço de interação, mostrando-se interdisciplinar, aspecto no qual se enquadram os mais recentes estudos na análise de discursos.
Analysis and production of teaching materials for language teaching: an approach in the light of Queer Linguistics
Description: This research project seeks to analyze didactic materials for language teaching in the light of the theoretical assumptions of Queer Linguistics (Borba, 2015, Butler, 2003, Foucault, 1996 and 2003). Queer Linguistics is an interdisciplinary subfield of Linguistics with diverse objectives: one of these objectives is to analyze linguistic productions that reflect discourses of/about sexualities and of/about diverse sexual genders in relation to heteronormative standards. Non-hegemonic sexualities and genders are characterized as social productions that do not fit into the dichotomous and binary patterns established by heteronorms (Butler, 2003, Foucault, 1996 and 2003). We understand that didactic materials for language teaching, in which linguistic and cultural issues are presented - whether in videos, different types of audios, textbooks - produce diverse discourses of/about genders and sexualities, often (in)making certain sexual behaviors visible. Therefore, through Queer studies, it is possible to develop an understanding of the linguistic marks that construct and (re)construct sexual identities or that create and (re)create stereotypes and prejudices around non-hegemonic sexualities and genders in different teaching materials. Throughout the course of the project, we intend to analyze the linguistic-discursive construction of the discourses produced in various didactic materials for language teaching, looking mainly at how different sexualities and genders are approached in these materials. In addition to analyzing the material, we will propose the production of pedagogical practices and teaching materials that produce different problematizations around existing sexual diversity.
Toponymic Atlas of the Brazilian Western Amazon and other lexical domains
Description: Based on the notion that Toponymy is a branch of Onomastics that studies the process of naming physical and human landforms, this research project aims to catalog, classify, describe, analyze and map the names of human and physical landforms in the Brazilian Western Amazon. This is a study in the lexical domain, which constitutes the cognitive-cultural universe of a given linguistic community. The analysis of toponymic records seeks to relate toponyms to sociocultural, historical and ideological factors, revealed through their motivational aspects, triggered in the act of naming spaces.
Description of the languages spoken in Amazonia: linguistic aspects
Description: This project seeks to develop research related to the Language(gens) and Teacher Training line of the Postgraduate Program in Letters: Language and Identity (PPGLI-UFAC), focused on the description, analysis and documentation of the languages spoken in the Amazon. The studies seek to portray the linguistic diversity of this region. The project's team is made up of professors/researchers from UFAC's Languages Courses, former students from UFAC's Masters Course in Languages: Language and Identity who wish to continue their research, current PPGLI students and professors and scholarship students from UFAC's Scientific Initiation Program.
Enunciative studies: subjectivity and alterity
Description: With enunciation as its central point, as understood by Bakhtin and Benveniste, the focus of this project is on: a) the analysis of the literary text, with an enunciative bias; b) theoretical and practical issues, such as authorship, subjectivity, alterity and reading practices.
Teacher training: stories and memories
Description: The aim of this research is to investigate the process of teacher training by characterizing the historical path, the legal framework, teaching knowledge, strategies and skills attributed to the teaching profession. In this way, we will understand the educational and training scenario of the teaching profession today in the voices of authors such as: Nóvoa (1999), Tardf (2002), Gatti (2011), Ramalho, Nuñez, Gauthier (2003), Ens; Gehrens (2011), loss (2015), Perrenoud (2001). Through qualitative research in education, based on the bibliographical research model, it will be possible to understand the educational scenario in terms of teacher training, understanding the genesis, past and present of teachers, confrontations and challenges that make up the daily reality in teacher training courses. The teacher/student relationship and the knowledge of experience. The challenges of training teachers and professionalizing teaching. We will also study the strategies and competences involved in the teaching profession. In this theoretical articulation, stories and formative memories intersect with the everyday knowledge and practices of the teaching profession.
Images of a trade - history and memory of teacher training institutions and practices in Acre
Description: This research project consists of investigations from a socio-historical perspective on the practices and institutions of teacher training in Acre, in the period between 1920 and 2000, comprising three axes: a) analysis of the processes of institutionalization and formulation of teacher training policies in Acre, developing the role of public power in the creation of specific institutions such as Normal Schools and Teaching Courses; b) mapping and problematization of training practices with regard to the educational action of trainers: teaching contents and methodologies and the curricular organization which shaped teacher training; c) studying the spatial structure, paying attention to the following aspects: architecture, layout, building construction standards and constitutive aspects of school culture. The research aims to produce a systematic and integrative interpretation of the interior of the institutions, in order to explain it and relate it to the wider reality of the education system.
Languages, identities and educational practices
Description: From an interdisciplinary perspective, the proposal is to study oral and written languages: reading, writing and literacy; Discourse Analysis, Content Analysis and Informational and Communicational Language mediated by new technologies dialoguing in the field of educational practices.
Languages, Interculturality and Teacher Training
Description: The central proposal of this Research Project is centered on investigating the dimensions of languages and intercultural processes in the field of teacher training, their tensions and conflicts in the making of pedagogical practices.
The past and present of Aruak peoples: the language and power of the Apurinã in Western Amazonia
Description: This project presents a proposal to study the historical development of the groups of the Aruak family in the Western Amazon, especially the Apurinã, through the examination of anthropological and linguistic information by researchers specialized in the study of Aruak groups. Language, political organization and inter-ethnic activities will be compared as a means of determining the historical path and changes experienced by these people.
Identity language practices in the Amazon context
Description: The focus of this project is centered on the search to understand the uses of language as a social practice and identity constitution and the different conceptions of language as a means to promote language teaching and learning strategies, articulated with the demands of the contexts of use. Its objectives include the teaching of genres, the analysis of teaching materials and the use of information and communication technologies in language teaching.
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