LIFE NARRATIVE OF MARIA FERNANDES DE QUEIROGA (SISTER ANA, OSF): MEMORY, HISTORY AND TEACHING IDENTITY

This article aims to outline the path of construction of the teaching identity of the educator and religious Maria Fernandes de Queiroga (Sister Ana, OSF), who has worked for more than five decades in teacher formation, at Colegio Normal Francisca Mendes (CNFM - Normal Highschool Francisca Mendes), in Catole do Rocha/PB, from a reading of her life trajectory and educational performance. Based on the ideas spread by the New Cultural History, in the investigative modes of (auto)biography, of micro- history and oral history, it is developed a historical approach of the sources constituted by oral history interviews, notebooks and writings of the educator, documents relating to CNFM, among others. Sister Ana has been building her teaching identity in welcoming, in the reflection and adaptation of the influences of the reference groups to which she has been linked throughout her life: the family, the religious congregation, the formative institutions and the place(s) of professional practice.