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UFRN Parafolkloric Group, phenomenology of culture, aesthetics, popular dances and sensitive education.
We affirm that The UFRN Parafolkloric Group expresses a phenomenology of culture that expands education through feeling. Inspired by the reflections proposed by Merleau-Ponty in his Phenomenology of Perception (1945/2011) and motivated by my lived world, I bring to this thesis the experiences of the UFRN Parafolkloric Group based on the dances of the people's culture in education. As an open field of expressive possibilities, popular culture in its ways of materializing and meaning through dances is a fertile soil capable of producing knowledge sensitive to education. In order to understand our statement, we set out as a general objective to reveal the UFRN Parafolkloric Group as a place where the phenomenology of culture is experienced, expanding education through feeling, by taking into consideration Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological perspective. Aiming to draw our methodological horizons, we assume the phenomenological attitude of Merleau-Ponty as this reference investigator of meanings that are born in sensitive experience and is moved by descriptions, reductions and interpretations to build a network of meanings when delving into history, spectacles and travels of the group. In our first chapter, The route of feeling, we address the historical experience of the group and the subjects that make it up, taking as a script a dialogue that involves the meanings of culture, folklore, tradition, memory, temporality, continuity and permanence. In our second chapter, The aesthetic experience of spectacles, we describe their spectacles, expanding the educational horizons in feeling the dances, culture, tradition, religiosity, symbols, gestures of the bodies involved as texts that found and give life to the phenomenology of culture present in the group through the aesthetic experience of their shows. In our third chapter, The Inhabitation of Festivals, we will be entangled in the cultural inhabitation of their travels, revealing the experience of encounter provided by moments of exchange as educational feelings. For the conclusions, we resume that The UFRN Parafolkloric Group expresses a phenomenology of culture that expands education through the feeling of its historical experience, the aesthetic archeology of its shows, and the cultural inhabitation of the interrelationships provided by its travels.