Memorials writing at ProfEPT: experience and knowledge

Abstract

Writing academically is an exercise that involves practical work. In this article, the aim is the presentation and analysis of memorials written by ProfEPT master's students at IFRO Campus Porto Velho Calama. To reflect on the writing of memorials is the goal to be reached when asking for gender as an evaluative process. In the humanizing perspective of TVET, we assume that the writing of memorials can lead the student to self-criticize and self-reflect on their writing, mobilizing several configurations in the pedagogical dimension. The methodological assumptions used in this article are the description of an academic writing experience through memorials, produced by ProfEPT students. The selection of three memorials was made due to the differences between them in terms of the opportunity to show the peculiarities and paths of selection, and to bring facts and subjectivities to the chosen genre. As a reference, we dialogue with theorists, such as Bakhtin (2006), Barthes (2004), Larrosa (2021), and Santos (2008). The reflection about this writing becomes justifiable by the possibility of the master's students to reflect on themselves and their academic production regarding the peculiarities of ProfEPT. In a partial assessment, the writing of memorials in ProfEPT brings reflections on the academic writing process and a consideration regarding a necessary knowledge arising from a hybrid writing, in which theoretical knowledge can be mixed with subjective interpretive reflections.