Reasoning Dictionary of Bachelor Degrees: ornithorhyncusing discourses in the field of teachers’ qualification

Abstract

This article analyzes a research that has invested in encouraging students to express what it exceeds in discourses of teachers’ qualification. Based on Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze as intercessors, it stands by thinking the writing as defiance, a tool that put in movement and move the excursus of discourses more sedimented about education, the ones that says about the figure of the teacher in the present days. It brings perceptions that results of an exercise of marveling what is said about “being teacher”. Developed with students of graduation from a Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul has made of the writing and to write, gathered in fantasy, a dispositive of intervention. Giving shape to this exercise of marveling, named as “to ornithorhyncus”, once it uses the figure of the ornithorhyncus, it creates the Reasoning Dictionary of Bachelor Degrees, inspired by some proceedings operated by the Encyclopédie ou Dictionaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers from Denis Diderot and Jean d’Alembert. Composed by four volumes and a total of 93 participating, it arranges a production of texts in the form of entries the result of philosophical and literary provocations. The ornithorhyncus appears in the project as a guide image, kind of concept-image that synthetizes the estrangement force and the work of the unknown, vital qualities to teaching and, consequently, to teachers’ qualification. This challenge has summoned students to perceive themselves and to write about this experience of becoming a teacher. Instead of a simple complaint, the entries which composes the dictionary are an invitation to strangeness of the common places that composes teachers’ qualification, a request to “ornithorhyncate” teaching conceptions and experiences.