Perceived female experience: going beyond the learning of the content proposed by the video documentary how does she do it?

Abstract

This text presents an account of an experience conducted with first-year students of the Pedagogy Course at the Federal Institute of Santa Catarina (IFC) – Rio do Sul campus. The objective is to demonstrate the self-perception of these beginning undergraduate students, who, upon watching the documentary video Como ela faz (How She Does It), used the phenomenological method to describe their sensations, feelings, and emotions. Our aim is not to evaluate the appropriation of concepts or content from the video, but rather to explore the narrative of students who, by experiencing the sensitive aspect of cinematographic art, experienced a new way of being and existing in the world. Our theoretical contributions relies on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, who perceives the expression of oneself as the human being's way of making themselves bodily present in the world. This account enabled the students to express their experiences in writing. In short, our proposal aims to give voice to their perceptions and, in this way, contribute to the human and critical development of these aforementioned students.