Writing the Self and Sociological Imagination: Cinema-Mediated Workshops

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https://doi.org/10.35819/tear.v15.n1.a8072

Abstract

This article addresses self-writing as a formative device and a sociological procedure based on the author’s experience as a workshop facilitator in eight film-mediated pedagogical workshops conducted between 2024 and 2025 in different educational contexts. The study investigates how self-narratives produced in collective educational situations may foster processes of critical formation and the production of sociologically situated knowledge. Methodologically, this is a qualitative study with a narrative approach, based on the interpretative analysis of written narratives produced by participants at the end of the workshops, subsequently transcribed recordings, and the facilitator’s reflective records. The analysis engages with self-writing as a formative process, as proposed by Passeggi, Souza and Vicentini (2011), articulated with Mills’s (1969) sociological imagination and Elias’s (1994) relational conception of the subject. The results indicate the emergence of recurring meaning cores, such as learning understood as a collective production, the development of a sociologically oriented critical gaze, and the humanization of professional education in relation to social inequalities. It is concluded that self-writing, when mediated by cinema and grounded in analytical rigor and sociological reflexivity, constitutes an effective formative device capable of articulating biography, institution, and social structure in processes of teacher and professional education.

Keywords: Self-writing. Teacher education. Cinema.

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Author Biography

  • Juliane Kelm Ramos, Universidade Federal do Paraná

    Doutoranda em Sociologia pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (PPGSOCIO-UFPR). Mestre em Sociologia pelo PROFSOCIO-UFPR. Professora da rede estadual de ensino do Paraná.

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2026-07-13

How to Cite

Writing the Self and Sociological Imagination: Cinema-Mediated Workshops. #Tear: Journal of Education, Science and Technology, Canoas, v. 15, n. 1, 2026. DOI: 10.35819/tear.v15.n1.a8072. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ifrs.edu.br/index.php/tear/article/view/8072. Acesso em: 14 jul. 2026.