Informação e educação patrimonial como estratégias para o (Re)conhecimento do patrimônio cultural

Abstract

The cultural heritage is constituted of all that the society preserves, so to allow the legacy of its history and culture. Considering the importance of cultural heritage, as well as their (un)knowledge on the part of the society, including the school audiences, is that we have the equity education as a propeller of preservation actions, safeguarding and valuing the cultural heritage. From this understanding, the present study has as the objective of analyzing the information practices of high school students and to analyze the patrimonial education practices - Observation, Registration, Exploration and Ownership - developed with the said school audience understanding that these practices are conducive to knowledge, use and appropriation of the cultural assets that make up the Brazilian Cultural Heritage. The research carried out is of a bibliographic, documentary and descriptive type, with a quantitative and qualitative methodological approach. It has as subjects of the school audience, specifically, the students of the 3rd year of the high school of the President João Goulart Integral Citizen School, located in João Pessoa, Paraíba State. The research data collection instrument is the questionnaire composed of open and closed questions, in order to delineate the social and informational profile of the research group. As data analysis procedure, it uses content analysis by categories thematic, which follow the stages of heritage education: observation, registration, exploitation and ownership. The results, obtained at each step of the education and the students' reports, that they can understand the cultural heritage from their personal life - life as the first patrimony - up to its social scope. It concludes that the equity information and the equity education practices developed with the school audience lead to awareness that they need to have a leading role in the relationship with cultural heritage, which was perceived through their current reflections and memories on the most diverse types of cultural assets, recognizing the plurality of cultural manifestation of the Brazilian patrimony