Cartographies of the sensitive being: An investigative method of educational research on teacher education

Abstract

This article aims to discuss education, specifically teacher education, plotted and immersed in today’s scenario. To this end, it offers data of the development and analysis of the formative action named Workshop called Weave uses of urban ways: a professorial aesthetic, a key element of the same name qualitative research that has a cartographic approach. The theoretical program of the workshop articulated heterogeneous and independent terms, which came from varied languages, from both contemporary art and philosophy of difference. Field tripsby boat, bus and walking were also conducted, that favored, through images taken with mobile phones or digital cameras, the capturing of signs emitted every day. Plotting the theoretical program with field trips, the creation of cartographic videos mapping intensities that constitute the professional to be was potentialized. Thus, this educational experiment was performed operating an investigative method which enables to look at the construction and deconstruction process of an existential territory in which reading and writing are endlessly powerful tools for the construction of a unique professorial aesthetic. Reading and writing: plotting and using different languages in teacher education, providing multiplicities that offer consistency to the knowledge built in the very existence of being a teacher, which configure a mapping of the sensitive being, bringing education to breathe a new air flow.

Key words: cartography, teacher education, philosophy of difference.