A relação entre os alunos e o patrimônio de sua escola

Abstract

This research aims at understanding the relationship students from a municipal school in Congonhas – MG (Brazil) have with their own school. We chose to study this because the students vandalize it and, apparently, do not feel any affection for it. It also seemed they did not consider the school to be something important to their history. The hypothesis that they didn’t have the school as a cultural reference was tested through talks during class, which were registered in a field journal, a drawing assignment in which they should picture a place in the city which was a reference to them, a representation of the city and their relationship with it. The school appeared in only 6,81% of the drawings. From these findings I propose an Environmental and Patrimonial Education activity which relies on the techniques of the Teachings of Patrimonial Education, according to Grumberg. The students should develop a memory-notebook with interviews, drawings and compositions, having their school as the theme, to approach their history and their family’s to the school.