Creating Sense in Travel Narrative Workshops

Abstract

Report of two workshops developed with a heterogeneous student audience, based on different stimulus, and with the common objective of understanding the meanings attributed to the act of traveling through reports (oral and written). The first group was made up of about 45 people, 40 students from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of secondary education, in addition to teachers from the Casa Viva School (Belo Horizonte/Minas Gerais/Brasil). The second group was composed of approximately 40 undergraduate students in Tourism and Geography from the University of Coimbra (Coimbra / Portugal). Both workshops took place in 2017 and included a lecture and practical activity. The results of the workshops indicate that the participants creatively experimented with the proposal and produced meanings for travel deviated from the logic of the tourist market, travel journalism and, in general, common sense.