Memória e Patrimônio de São Gonçalo: uma proposta pedagógica de elaboração de um acervo por alunos da Educação Básica

Abstract

This work, born from my questions in the classroom, refers to my daily work as a teacher and seeks to reflect on the possibilities and challenges for learning beyond the school walls. I present an alternative to the traditional class pattern, in which the privileged content is focused on an official history that does not relate to the student. With an emphasis on the municipality of São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), such alternative highlights local history as a tool for teaching history by inserting experiences into the classroom with historic and geographic elements that are close to the student. The issue of memory and identity is also mobilized during the work with local history. Memory being understood as a construction and as a constituent factor of identity. Local history associated with heritage education underlines the production of a collection created by students, understood as historical subjects who actively participate in the process of construction and deconstruction of local memory.