Lovingness games and systematization of experiences in a popular course

Abstract

In this article, a systematization of collectively reflected experiences is disclosed based on discursive-pedagogical practices of participants in a popular course, on the outskirts of Fortaleza-CE, created from dialogues between university and community, from a cartographic perspective, as a community extension project, fully developed as a teaching and research activity. The text comprises a fragment of a large quilt woven collectively as a thesis during doctoral research at a public university in Ceará, entitled “xxx”. The contribution of the research consists of experimenting with a concept, lovingness games (Author B, 2023). The term allows it to be crossed by speech acts of the participants, the conceptions of language games, by Wittgenstein (2017), and amorousness, by Freire (1987) and hooks (2021ab). Otherwise, we inaugurated the use of Systematization of Experiences (Holliday, 2006), as a research methodology in the area of ​​Applied Linguistics, which understands language as a transformative social practice (Lopes, 2016). The analysis, from a pragmatic cultural perspective (Alencar, 2015), allowed us to conclude that the participants’ lovingness games constitute the production of discursive pedagogical, affective and supportive artifacts, in a crossing of their struggles against oppressive systems that compromise their ways of being.