Educação patrimonial: ação educativa no Museu Casa Margarida Maria Alves - Alagoa Grande/ PB

Abstract

Heritage Education as a permanent and systematic process may outline new ways for reflection and resignification of knowledge related to cultural heritage in the educational environment. Paths capable of providing awareness, provoking discussions and enabling changes in pedagogical practices in conducting a planning in which the local cultural heritage may be recognized, valued, becoming an inexhaustible source of preservation of the memory and history of a people. Observing the practices that are developed at school, related to Heritage Education, one notices the absence of a work focused specifically on local history, which implies thinking about the following question: how can teachers resignify their pedagogical practice from the Heritage Education mediated by Casa Margarida Maria Alves Museum? Thus, this study aims to resignify the pedagogical practice related to Heritage Education, promoting the appreciation of the local cultural heritage from the institution Casa Margarida Maria Alves Museum, located in Alagoa Grande, Paraíba. For this purpose , it starts with an educational action developed with teachers who work in the early years of Elementary School (1st to 5th grade) in the Primary and Elementary Municipal School Desembargador Severino Montenegro, Alagoa Grande-PB, through the Pedagogical Workshop “Resignifying memories and life stories - Casa Margarida Maria Alves”. The workshop aimed at recognizing the Casa Margarida Maria Alves Museum as a memory environment, susceptible to providing meaningful experiences. In methodological terms, it is a qualitative research of the action research type, having as instruments of data collection the interview, the questionnaire and the records of the pedagogical workshop through audiovisual images and the resercher‟s field diary, which supported the discussions raised. Among the main theoretical contributions are the studies by Nora (1993); Horta, Grunberg and Monteiro (1999); Galzerani (2006; 2008; 2009); Halbwanchs (2006); and Mario Chagas (2010). Based on the results, it was possible to realize that the accomplishment of this research contributed greatly to the resignification of the participating teachers, regarding to the local heritage aprroach in the classroom, more precisely, to the Casa Margarida Maria Alves Museum, fostering new reflections. and causing changes in their pedagogical practices.