Palimpsestos urbanos: aprendizagens históricas em tramas de memórias da cidade

Abstract

The proposition of this Master Dissertation is of thinking and reflecting, on the point of view of Education and, more specifically, of History teaching, over issues related to the various possible types of learning in an out-of-school space but also deeply ingrained in our day-by-day: the city. Thus, Urban palimpsests: historical learning through plots of city history is a work of which focus is in perceiving how the questioning of several layers of time existing in a city is required to think about History Teaching with the city, that way promoting the development of necessary skills to the learning of History. As axis of investigation questions, there are: In which manner the analysis of the city and its memoir locations allow us to think about new ways of experiencing the first? / Can a discussion made from the relation between life histories, thought from a memoir location of the city, and the preserved heritage, be a tool for History Teaching with the city? / What the action of thinking individual relationships established between the material (buildings, monuments, historic sites, etc..) and immaterial (urban crafts and others) heritage, and the forms of orientation of subjects in urban areas allows to be drawn as of new strategies for a Heritage Education that privileges the diverse perspectives for a same cultural wellness? The research took place at a memoir location (Nora, 1993) set out by both, the population and the government of the city of Juiz de Fora, MG and, through observations, nine people were selected, defined here as ordinary practitioners (Certeau, 1994), ie, those who daily (Certeau, 2009) consume and live that place. With the interviews, it was understood that these ordinary practitioners are carriers of rationality and sensibility (Galzerani, 2010) to reflect over the heritage of the city. Stepping away from the Classical Heritage Education (Grunberg, 2007), which defends the idea of an educational process with the heritage as the main focus, the research puts itself into discussing a new way of thinking educational practices in the city, highlighting the relationships and different types of perceptions that may occur among ordinary practitioners and the cultural wellness, stimulating the narrative of these subjects. Think about what it represents for Education and History Teaching to unveil the dynamics of urban experience and the dynamics which establishes itself through the relationship with the urban within Time, Memory, the Everyday Life and Narratives, essential axes, as they lie spontaneously in the city and guide the lives of people in their also spontaneous relationship with non-scholar educational processes. Each subject, therefore, would be considered a potential narrator-subject.