O museu em processo: oralidades no uso pedagógico do Museu de Artes e Ofícios em Belo Horizonte/MG

Abstract

This paper presents the experience of a school teacher who makes pedagogical use of the museums to teach history. The teacher named Cora developed with EJA students the project Desvendando o Primeiro de Maio using as strategies oral history methodology, reading of texts and a visit to the Museu de Artes e Ofícios exhibition in Belo Horizonte. With this project the teacher created opportunities for EJA students to relate the narratives of their own memories to the history taught in class. The paper also presents the museum conception in process of developed by the museologist Tereza Scheiner. This conception works as a basis for reading the activities developed by Cora, which stimulated the authorial production by the students. The students’ production gave new meanings to the museum exhibition and dialogued with the official content proposed by elementary school. The oral history methodology was used in the actions developed in the project as well as in the elaboration of a documentary.