Local history and heritage education: a proposal for intervention

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Marinna Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Ramos, Marcos Daniel de Moura, Oliveira, Anelise Martinelli Borges de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: EDUCAÇÃO: Teoria e Prática
• Texto Completo: https://www.periodicos.rc.biblioteca.unesp.br/index.php/educacao/article/view/17709
• topic: História Local. Educação Patrimonial. Espaços não Formais de Educação.; Local History. Heritage Education. Non-formal Learning Spaces.; Historia Local. Educación Patrimonial. Espacios No formales de Educación.

This article intends to delineate the importance of inserting local history and heritage education outlooks in the school environment, as well as to present an experience of intervention in these themes, performed in a public school in Uberaba, Minas Gerais. The theoretical framework is based on authors who deal with local history and heritage education from a critical and non-reductionist approach, such as Barros (2022) and Cavalcanti (2018). An interventional project was developed for a particular class – the 2022 session of Active Methodologies in Teachers’ Professional Development, part of the Postgraduate Programme in Education in the Universidade Federal do Triângulo Mineiro (UFTM), Brazil. High school students participated in the project by visiting heritage sites in the city and conducting the proposed activities. The results show engagement and active participation on behalf of these students. We infer, therefore, that the occupation of non-formal educational spaces by students who embark in research activities regarding historical and cultural preservation is a powerful ally to the process of teaching and learning History and the development of multiple skills. Furthermore, according to Medeiros and Surya (2009), the realization of activities that involve heritage sites are capable of building and/or maintaining affectual relations between the subject and the heritage site, therefore contributing to its preservation.