Audiovisual production in teacher-researcher education: shared views on the Restinga National Park of Jurubatiba

Abstract

We seek to contribute to the debate on innovative and horizontal educational processes by targeting complex realities and their potential for the emerging education of non-formal areas. We intend to answer the following questions: Does field work combined with audiovisual production contribute to teacher-researcher education? Is Paulo Freire's dialogical proposal allied to the actor-network theory a way to the production of collective knowledge in a territory full of inequalities, hierarchies and injustices? In order to answer the structural questions of the article, we performed the following steps: i) formative meetings with students of the Pedagogy Graduation Course of the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ); ii) completion of field research in the buffer zone of the Restinga de Jurubatiba National Park; iii) experimental production of four documentaries in the studied territory; and iv) reflections on the field research in the university. We have identified that students, by observing reality without predetermined categories and with the camera in hands, have experienced a specific kind of production of knowledge about reality. This experience has led us to think about a specific kind of cinema, which we call Freirean Environmental Cinema (“Cinema Ambiental Freiriano”).