Oral History and narrative analysis of narratives in the mathematics education research in Brazil

Abstract

This paper presents the Oral History as an alternative for the research on the history of mathematics education according to some experiences performed in Brazil. We discuss how Oral History can be comprehended and how it can be developed by highlighting some of its possibilities and limitations. As a qualitative research methodology, the Oral History has been used either in historiographics’ researches studies, or not, adopting different theoretical perspectives. In this way, we present some examples of academic works that were done in the last decade with emphasis on the use of narrative analysis of narratives as an alternative for their data analyzes.

Keywords

• historia oral
• metodología de investigación
• historia de la educación matemática
• análisis narrativo.