Dialogando com os testemunhos do passado local através do patrimônio cultural edificado : um estudo do meio no centro de João Pessoa

Abstract

This dissertation text highlights the results of a study of the environment whose proven area was the Historic Center of João Pessoa, promoted in the month of September 2022, among students from the Military Police College Student Rebeca Cristina Alves Simões. We consider that the application of the methodology is capable of providing participating students with a dialogue between the vestiges of the colonial past that persist in the present time, offering them a vision of the perspectives of ruptures, permanences, historical temporalities and multiple uses that geographic spaces can assume over time. The classes invited to participate in the project belonged, at the time of its execution, to the 9th Year of Elementary School and, for almost two academic years - due to the Covid-19 Pandemic -, they attended classes in a remote format, so that their involvement in an activity of this nature, it allowed them to reinforce their knowledge about Colonial History, in addition to studying the different processes, conflicts and historical temporalities present in the region. To analyze the activity, two questionnaires were applied: the first, carried out immediately after the field trip, still in 2022, semi-structured, whose objectives were to detect a socioeconomic and cultural profile of the students involved; understand the teaching-learning process of Local History and propose an assessment of the study of the environment. The second, carried out a year later, in October 2023, also semi-structured, provided a broader view of the results of the activity, allowing the analysis of concepts known by students and necessary to understand the purpose of the activity. To establish a dialogue between the issues presented throughout the text, we used texts by Gonçalves (2007), Bittencourt (2008), Honor (2006), Assad (2017), Dias (1996), Pacheco (2017) among others, in addition to primary sources, such as the report by mining engineer Francisco Retumba. In addition to the study of the environment, the result of the work carried out is the script used in the field trip, which can be adopted during similar activities, aimed at teaching the History of João Pessoa.