Memory and pedagogical praxis: A study at ifma, campus são joão dos patos

In this text, we introduced results of a research about the teaching praxis from the Federal Institute of Science and Technology of Maranhão (IFMA), Campus São João dos Patos. We accomplished an investigation along with licensed teachers, bachelors and technologists (these two last areas without specific formation of the teaching) through focus groups, but also considering the institutional documents. We resorted to the social and collective memory theory to understand the teaching praxis at IFMA. We concluded that there is a social, collective memory that permeates the educational practices by revealing the presence of the past in the present and, many times, articulating the memory of teaching practices apprehended ideologically, even though there is also a construction of a memory of the present in midst of the conflicts that tries to think the student in that process, even within class composition.