Indícios do processo de constituição do educador matemático Ubiratan D’Ambrosio
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2024-08-08
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Mendonça, Guilherme Costa de 
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Morais, Rosilda dos Santos
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Dissertação de mestrado
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Pesquisas que se encarregaram de falar sobre Ubiratan D’Ambrosio apresentam diferentes papéis desempenhados por ele ao longo de sua extensa carreira profissional, a saber, pesquisador, matemático, professor, orientador, organizador de eventos, fomentador de aproximações de pessoas que vieram a formar sociedades científicas no Brasil, entre outras... Observa-se nessas pesquisas que a formação de Ubiratan se deu, em especial, no que se denomina por Matemática pura e daí vieram seus primeiros interesses de pesquisa. Contudo, neste trabalho buscou-se por indícios do processo de constituição do educador matemático Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, que vai para os Estados Unidos cursar pós-doutoramento em Matemática pura e retorna, nove anos, depois reconhecido internacionalmente como educador matemático. Para escrever esta história recorreu-se, inicialmente, a cartas que compõem o Acervo Pessoal Ubiratan D’Ambrosio (APUA) que está sob custódia do GHEMAT-Brasil. Referenciais teóricos que discorrem sobre arquivos pessoais, pesquisas epistolares e análise de cartas, como Foucault (1992), Gomes (1998), Bacellar (2008), Malatian (2009), Farge (2022) entre outros, fundamentaram a pesquisa. Esses referenciais consideram cartas como escritas da subjetividade dos sujeitos e a aproximação com os acontecimentos históricos que ocorrem à época de troca de correspondências entre o pesquisado e sua rede de relacionamentos. O movimento metodológico realizado nesta pesquisa se deu inicialmente por meio da análise de excertos de 55 cartas catalogadas durante a pesquisa que formam a coleção “Educador Matemático”. Como resultados observou-se a aproximação de Ubiratan com o campo da Educação Matemática a partir do conhecimento de “novas culturas”, o que lhe possibilitou fugir de suas gaiolas epistemológicas.
Research studies that have been responsible for discussing Ubiratan D’Ambrosio present the different roles he played throughout his extensive professional career, namely as a researcher, mathematician, teacher, advisor, event organizer, and promoter of connections between people who came to form scientific societies in Brazil, among others... It can be seen in these studies that Ubiratan’s training took place, in particular, in what is called pure mathematics, and from there his first research interests came. However, this work sought evidence of the process of formation of the mathematics educator Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, who went to the United States to pursue a post-doctorate in pure mathematics and returned nine years later, internationally recognized as a mathematics educator. To write this story, we initially used letters that make up the Ubiratan D’Ambrosio Personal Collection (APUA), which is in the custody of GHEMAT-Brazil. Theoretical references that discuss personal archives, epistolary research and letter analysis, such as Foucault (1992), Gomes (1998), Bacellar (2008), Malatian (2009), Farge (2022) among others, supported the research. These references consider letters as writings of the subjectivity of the subjects and the approximation with the historical events that occur at the time of the exchange of correspondence between the researched and his network of relationships. The methodological movement carried out in this research initially occurred through the analysis of excerpts from 55 letters cataloged during the research that form the collection “Educador Matemático”. As a result, it was observed that Ubiratan approached the field of Mathematics Education based on the knowledge of “new cultures”, which allowed him to escape from his epistemological cages.
Research studies that have been responsible for discussing Ubiratan D’Ambrosio present the different roles he played throughout his extensive professional career, namely as a researcher, mathematician, teacher, advisor, event organizer, and promoter of connections between people who came to form scientific societies in Brazil, among others... It can be seen in these studies that Ubiratan’s training took place, in particular, in what is called pure mathematics, and from there his first research interests came. However, this work sought evidence of the process of formation of the mathematics educator Ubiratan D’Ambrosio, who went to the United States to pursue a post-doctorate in pure mathematics and returned nine years later, internationally recognized as a mathematics educator. To write this story, we initially used letters that make up the Ubiratan D’Ambrosio Personal Collection (APUA), which is in the custody of GHEMAT-Brazil. Theoretical references that discuss personal archives, epistolary research and letter analysis, such as Foucault (1992), Gomes (1998), Bacellar (2008), Malatian (2009), Farge (2022) among others, supported the research. These references consider letters as writings of the subjectivity of the subjects and the approximation with the historical events that occur at the time of the exchange of correspondence between the researched and his network of relationships. The methodological movement carried out in this research initially occurred through the analysis of excerpts from 55 letters cataloged during the research that form the collection “Educador Matemático”. As a result, it was observed that Ubiratan approached the field of Mathematics Education based on the knowledge of “new cultures”, which allowed him to escape from his epistemological cages.
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MENDONÇA, Guilherme Costa de. Indícios do processo de constituição do educador matemático Ubiratan D’Ambrosio. Dissertação (Mestrado em Educação e Saúde na Infância e na Adolescência) – Unifesp: Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Federal de São Paulo - EFLCH, 2024, 111 f.