Maria de Fátima Aranha de Queiroz e Melo

Discutindo a aprendizagem sob a perspectiva da teoria ator-rede

In this paper, we argue learning as a dynamic and multifaceted phenomenon, product of series of conditions emerging from a networking causality, taking body as a mediating instance between subject and the world, affecting reciprocally each other. Based on concept of translation, defended by Actor-Network Theory, we searched their unfolding in Psychology field in order to understand the construction of identities as bets, always temporaries, of materiality and sociality processed mixtures, during human biography lifetime. We used Stengers-Despret principles, brought up to date for Latour, pointing to a alternative political epistemology making a reflection on teaching, learning and knowledge construction: while a process necessarily tied and tuned with others; while a risked enterprise that leads in account, as a survival strategy, human and on human recalcitrance; that offers occasions to differ in a movement where all the involved ones modify each others because of effects produced; while a plural and inclusive practice, having, finally, a common world as the major objective of this constructions. Key words: Learning; Actor-Network Theory; Psychology

Sucata vira brinquedo: tradução a partir de restos

In this article we call attention to the necessity of taking responsibility for the destination of the waste we generate, proposing an alternative use. The Actor-Network Theory was used as a theoretical methodological instru- ment for the Projeto Sucata (Scrap Project) developed by the staff of the Brinquedoteca da Universidade (Universitys Toy Library) and whose goal has been to transform waste scraps into toys with the participation of children from a low-income neighborhood of a city in Minas Gerais. Translation and mediation were used as concepts for describing the process of transformation that occurred among all the parts involved.

Controvérsias metodológicas em psicologia social: revendo posturas no campo

This paper intends to present a fragment of a study about the popular kite trick - traditional playful activity that survives in our days among children and young people - mobilizing methodological controversies found in research field and placing in check the position of researchers, the actors roles while co-authors of our histories and ethical implications of our choices in the way to approach our searched. We have used Actor-Network Theory as theoretician methodological bedding, searching to exercise one practice of research supported in a necessary and inherent courtesy to the construction of the knowledge, idea defended by Despret and Latour. For these authors, one research would be valid only if, at its end, the involved parts would have been differentiated in relation as they were in its beginning.

The self in action: The game in Psychodrama and electronic games

Based on an essay “Actors in Action: The Game in Psychodrama and Electronic Games” wrote in a Master’s Degree dissertation, we have shown the mutuality between the plots that take place on a psychodrama stage and the networks that arise from a digital platform. In the articulations between psychodrama and electronic games, we have found the interlacement of the contexts of fantasy-reality representations in ludic scenarios of dramatisation, in which the protagonists, the supporting egos and the intermediate objects are equivalent to the role players, the avatars and the non-human objects.

A pipa como um fé(i)tiche: passando ao largo de dicotomias

We operate with the concept of fe(i)tiche proposed by Latour to understand the power of influence and agglutination of an ancient toy in its relationship with humans that have it as an object of high significance in their biographies. In this article, the word fetish was problematized to assume a composite version which translates, at the same time, a fact and a sorcery, object made and enchanted object, bypassing the dichotomies between what is reality and what is fabrication. In the quest to restore the integration of wholes that were split by modern thought, is chosen to study phenomena as an effect of chains whose mediators are investigated with the same value as operators of effects. Narratives of kite players collected in interviews have been privileged, as well as contributions in the literature, by highlighting the power of the kite as a sacred object that is protagonist of events and mobilizes feelings and actions.