O processo de organização dos documentos de arquivos do colégio técnico da UFMG: possibilidades e limites para história da educação técnica e profissional no Brasil

Abstract

With the purpose of concluding the Specialization Course in Management of Federal Institutions of Higher Education of the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in the Line of Management in Technologies, I present this Study of the Coltec Collection: The process of organization and identification of the background of UFMG’s Technical School: Possibilities and limits for the history of technical and professional education in Brazil. The relevance of Document Management for the preservation of social memory, an exploratory study with the objective of presenting a proposal for intervention in the archives of the Technical School of UFMG, with the aim of identifying the documents of Coltec's medium value and emphasizing the importance of the contribution of these documents for the preservation of the Institutional memory. For this purpose, it is necessary to identify, sanitize, classify and evaluate these documents, to later elaborate the framework for the arrangement of permanent documents, as well as the elaboration of descriptive instruments that will allow access to the information contained in the archival documents. In the case of Coltec's archival documentation, the intention is to outline a trajectory of the production and accumulation of documents of probative and informative value, in this context, to identify how this production and accumulation will contribute to the conception of social memory, which subjects involved in this process. For this, a "gold-digging” in the documentary mass accumulated in Coltec is necessary. In this Project we will use qualitative, documentary and exploratory research, since there are no preliminary researches completed in the School, and the research environment is specific, which in a way limits the choice of a single methodology. The more specific methods will be chosen in the course of the research, since in the case of archival documents there is no "recipe" to be used. This project is relevant, for various reasons, which can be of a practical or theoretical nature. In practical terms, the treatment of accumulated documentary mass will not only benefit the School, but also all university community and society, as it will contribute to solutions to routine problems, such as lack of space in the administrative sectors, reduction of production, storage and packaging costs of the archival documents, and most importantly to the agility of the retrieval of information contained in the archival documents. Still in the practical area this project will contribute to the organization of the Coltec Collection. In the theoretical aspect, it will extend the discussions about the importance of the archival treatment to the documentary collections of the University. In this sense the study will bring more visibility to UFMG's archival policies.