Narração de histórias e sua contribuição ao trabalho psicopedagógico

Abstract

Since the remote years of my childhood I have been reading and listening to stories. I used to love when my father sat in the garden staircase to tell us- his children (six), our cousins and friends - some stories. Altogether, we constituted a small and lively audience. My dream was to learn how to read so as to be able to read those stories as well as several others. Actually, I could read a lot of them. I would dedicate some moments to reading everyday. At that time, I could hardly imagine that a few decades later, I would be a story teller, discovering, maybe a bit late, my real talents. For sure, the time I worked as a tutor in the so-called Reading Room in the Public School System of the City of São Paulo was the best and happiest moments in my life: the tales, legends, chronicles, poems, romances, epics and all the other stories I had read, I told to, shared and exchanged with all my students, who brought a new dimension to them. Stories stimulate our imagination, emotions and are encouraging. They bring us hope of overcoming what seems to be the most difficult problems to solve. They subtly show us what reality is like. I could see that my students were feeling exactly the same as I had experienced when listening to my father‟s stories in the garden staircase. It is in this classroom experience, through six popular stories among the students that the contribution of story-telling in the Psychopedagogical procedures will be analysed. Therefore, the key words in this study are: self-knowledge, identity, creativity and Psychopedagogy, for it aims at answering the following questions: - Can story-telling help in the learning process? How ? - Can the individuals solve their internal conflicts by listening to stories? - Would it help people develop self-knowledge? - Would it contribute to creativity?