Prática formativa no museu: ampliando as possibilidades de atuação do pedagogo em espaços museais

Abstract

The article socializes a training practice developed in a university museum, the Museu de História Natural e Jardim Botânico da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, in the year of 2017 and presents the investigated results of an extension action. Its purpose is to discuss the training and performance of pedagogues in the museum space. The qualitative nature research adopted bibliographic, documentary and field research as procedures, with 94 Pedagogy graduates participating in this action as an empirical analysis case. The data, treated in accordance with the content analysis technique, highlighted the conception of these academics about the museum; the type of visiting public at these institutions; the activities that a museum provides for its public; what teachers intend when proposing a visit with their students to the museum; the disciplines offered in the Pedagogy course that seek to highlight other areas of activity for pedagogues; the training that would be necessary to act as a pedagogue in the museum, as well as the relevance of the experience lived. The results indicated that 79.8% of undergraduates do not have the habit of visiting museums, 98.9% consider the museum as an educational space and 97.8% understand that there is a work space for the educator in this locus. It is possible to conclude that this extension action constitutes a way of professional training although, in the undergraduate students view, the necessary qualification to work in the museum requires the study of education in non-school spaces related disciplines.