Pedagogy of legwork and collective in port of Porto Alegre

Abstract

This article examines whether some elements of the forms of organization of the workers in the port of Porto Alegre, in the years 60,70 and 80 of the twentieth century, mainly focusing on the customary ways how was the process of teaching and learning of employees in making work, relationships and inter-relationships in everyday life. Action actors in the construction of its history, which is called the Pedagogy of legwork and collective. The main sources used are the narratives produced by the interaction between interviewer and interviewee, by recording the oral history, the fruit of the collective experience of port workers, because even with record individual memories, always represent the community in which it is inserted the narrator. It is perceived by these narratives, collated from other sources, the employees had a peculiar way of passing knowledge to future generations, whose bases are in prioritizing the practical, everyday and customary elements. These constructs are fundamental in the constitution of experience of work and strengthened the configuration of workers' struggles in the port of Porto Alegre, represented by their unions and federations.