A educação não formal e os roteiros culturais no centro histórico do Rio de Janeiro: os lugares de amnésia

Abstract

This dissertation aims to demonstrate the importance of non-formal pedagogical activities for high school students. Our work is based on the theoretical studies of intellectuals, such as Maria da Gloria Gohn and Philip H. Coombs, as well as on the author's experience of more than twenty years in the organization of cultural itineraries in the Historic Center of Rio de Janeiro. We analyze two cases: students from a private school in Ipanema and high school students from evening public schools. This analysis emphasizes that many teachers find difficulties in promoting non-formal pedagogical activities. Our investigation uses interviews and surveys conducted with History teachers and high school students. Thus, we will present a final product: a cultural itinerary in the Historic Center based on the concept of "places of amnesia" by the French anthropologist Joël Candau, which reveals a series of forgotten sites, such as cemeteries, siege grounds, pillories, places of slaughters and lynching. These amnesic places help to problematize and understand, in part, the formation process of our unequal and violent society.