Patrimônio Arquitetônico de Cajazeiras ‐ PB: memória, políticas públicas e educação patrimonial

Abstract

This Master s Degree Dissertation analyzes the increasing process of building and urban transformations occurred in Cajazeiras, Paraíba State, Northeast Brazil, during the second half of 20th Century, that s caused the destruction of various ancient houses, remodeling the downtown streets and other spaces. Although already exists, since 2004, a governor executive order that recognizes and delimits the local historical downtown, this architectural heritage comes being threatened and buried for this increasing transformation process that privileges modern buildings. Such reality comes if speeding up since the 1990 s, modifying the local landscape. With focus on this problematic, the research objectifies: discuss the Heritage Education public policies and its implantation necessity in a municipal scope, as way to construct an historical culture centered in heritage preservation since the firsts classes of basic education. The modernization process occurred in some Paraiba s cities during the first half of 20th Century is also treated, as a basis to discuss all that happened in Cajazeiras in the same context and period; detaching the buildings identified by IPHAEP (Paraíba Historical and Artistic Heritage Institute) as local historic sites, analyzing the problems concerned to delimitation of Cajazeiras historical downtown, identifying the conservation current state of these heritage, and arguing the importance of the heritage preservation for memory and local historical culture. This work is integrated to the research line History Education and Historic Knowledge, of the Master s Degree Course of History Graduate Program in Federal University of Paraíba, whose area of concentration is History and Historical Culture, intending to dialogue with this field of theoretical boarding, using the Oral History methodology.