Presentation - History of education and migrations in a transnational perspective, some theoretical-methodological dialogues

Abstract

Throughout different times and spaces, human beings migrated and in doing so, they experienced the intensity of learning related to language, ways of life and ways of signifying, living and organizing their own existence through different cultures. Migrating as a promise, as a choice or a as a refuge produced learning and, in the confrontation with the other, also new ways of being, understanding and living, or surviving. By targeting the displacements of different human groups, paying attention to the educational processes experienced and their forms, in a transnational perspective, we enrich the understanding of the complexity of the history of (school and non-school) educational processes, and this is the objective of this dossier. We consider that such approach enables us to illuminate underexplored dimensions in the relations between migration and education in Brazil and Latin America, under different methodological and theoretical nuances. Mobilizing analyses that relate History of Education and History of Migration, in a transnational perspective, we perceive the constitution of educational and school strategies, production, circulation and distribution of didactic materials, as well as the constitution of school cultures marked by some specificities. When thinking about the subjects’ itineraries, the ways in which different educational agencies and initiatives, religious or civil, state or associative, we perceive the plurality of the history of education in the set of articles that make up the dossier Migratory Processes and History of Education in a transnational perspective.