Educação patrimonial: experiência aplicada para o município de Santiago - RS

Abstract

The work entitled “Heritage Education: an applied experience for the city of Santiago - RS” discusses heritage education as a possibility of educational action to be developed in schools, with the purpose of informing and making students aware of the value of preserving society's heritage and cultural assets. The focus of the research is the cultural heritage of Santiago, a city located in Rio Grande do Sul State, in Southern Brazil. The main objective is to propose heritage education actions as a way to promote and value heritage and to understand how students in a public school perceive the cultural heritage of their city. As a final product of the dissertation, the author elaborate an educational booklet: “A heritage tour through the city of Santiago” - later used in the classroom activity with students from the 4th grade of the São José Municipal Elementary School. Based on a theoretical reference and research on historical and tourist data of the city, this work sought to establish which places and buildings have the greatest historical and architectural interest in the history of Santiago, in order to understand their importance and their value through the heritage recognition that these places represent for the society. The exploratory qualitative methodology consists of bibliographic research and the creation of the educational booklet. Through illustrations and activities, the booklet explains the concepts of heritage through the cultural assets of Santiago. According to the experience carried out in the classroom, the research reinforces the importance that the material obtained as a complement in the education of students, having a positive result in view of the reaction that the children obtained with the handling and understanding of the educational booklet.