Educação patrimonial dos sítios paleontológicos da formação Santa Maria - RS: memórias da cidade estudo com alunos do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The present dissertation has been developed in the Line of Research Edutation and Arts of the Post-Graduation Program in Education - PPGE. It is a qualitative research which aimed to investigate, along with the City Chamber of Town Councillors, whose projects approach questions on the fossil estate protection in town and, to do so, three city councillors have been interviewed. The City Secretary of Education has been asked about the disciplines and/or contents offered about this theme in the fundamental city schools. It was also intended to research the City Historic Archive to look into the documents or reports that tell about the first excavations or the first vestiges of any kind of fossils found in this city. The work of elaborating the Educational Guide on the fossil signals was made at 'Antônio Alves Ramos - Patronato' School by a group of eight students from the 6th grade of Fundamental School. The data collect was made in 2007. The tools used were the participant observation, document analysis, field diary and semi-structured interviews. The collected data were interpretated in accordance with the elaborated categories, being discussed concerned to the theoretical reference points that guide the investigation. In this study, it was concluded that the research questions were answered according to the previewed ideas. Thus, actually, in Santa Maria - RS, the question on the preservation of the fossil estate still needs much attention from the governments and from the education institutions for a better cultural development. So, once the teaching of Art and Estate Education might contribute to estimulate the feeling of caring for the cultural aspects of the public estate, investigating the city memory, its value and what it represents to the community.