O patrimônio cultural no distrito de Vale Vêneto, São João do Polêsine/RS: histórias e personagens contadas num caderno didático

Abstract

The research theme is entitled Cultural Heritage in the district of Vale Veneto, São João do Polêsine/RS: stories and characters told in a textbook. In order to carry out this work, a bibliographic research was carried out to provide a theoretical basis for the topic in question, deepening the themes related to the oral memory of the residents of this locality. With the Heritage Education support, we sought to awaken in the fourth and fifth grade students of the Padre Rafael Iop State Elementary School the curiosity to learn about their community’s heritage, as well as to value and preserve the memory of the local historical heritage, as told by the older residents. The research was carried out due to the opening of extra vacancies by the Postgraduate Course in Cultural Heritage of the University Federal of Santa Maria, linked to the Fourth Colony Geopark, giving teachers the opportunity to continue their studies by taking a master’s degree. The final product of this dissertation was a textbook that can be used by all schools in the region to deepen the knowledge about Cultural Heritage, Heritage Education, and Memory, in a language accessible to students from nine to eleven years old. The research on the oldest buildings in Vale Vêneto, a district of São João do Polêsine, also emphasizes the history of Italian immigration in the town where immigrants build their houses with the dream of improving their families’ lives. These residences have meanings that are transformed within the living space. We seek to value the memory of these residences by disclosing the stories that happened and were lived by the older residents of this community in the textbook.