Um estudo fenomenológico do processo identitário a partir de narrativas de homens pais na contemporaneidade

Abstract

This research aims at understanding the process of identity constitution of male parents as a result of the descriptions of their experiences in relation to their educational practices concerning their children. The concept of narrative identity, according to Ricoeur s (1991) proposal, led this paper epistemologically, as a possibility of descriptive and comprehensible knowledge. The phenomenology was the basis of this work as a method of inquiring phenomenon. Phenomenon was inquired according to Husserl s (1990) proposal of getting to the real thing . Because this is a qualitative research based on phenomenology, it favored the use of reflexive meetings proposed by Szymanski (2002), to obtain narratives from the participants. The research method was developed in accordance to the intervention research model, proposed by Thiollent (1996), having in mind that these meetings were focused on a reflexive praxis. The analysis procedure was based on the hermeneutic phenomenology focus of Ricoeur (1978), looking for the meanings that emerged and were constituted, by each male parent, in their accounts. From those meanings that emerged, it was possible to perceive that the participants in the research interact and coexist with different views on the paternity process, which many times generate contradictions and identity crisis. We could also apprehend that these reflexive meetings provided a human way of acting based on the shaping of their interpersonal relationships, based on their accounts, which led to an active reorganization of meanings and a new interpretation of their self, in their encounters with other male parents. This means that the experience of telling their experiences led the participants of these meeting to an active reorganization and a self-interpretation of the meanings of their experiences to themselves, fundamental as part of the identity formation process