Gestos, arquivos e memória: que histórias contam um arquivo de um programa de pós-graduação em educação?

Abstract

This text deals with ongoing research and reflections about organization and the potentials of university archives for the development of the history of education. It argues that there is a need to establish archival policies, therefore, of memory, that encourage the custody, organization and availability not only of the administrative collections that the legislation “orders to be kept”, but also, and above all, collections of an academic-scientific nature, relating to university teaching, research and extension. Therefore, we make an initial exhibition showing the importance of memory places and organization of archives, followed by an explanation about the current configuration of a specific memory center –the Center for Research, Documentation and Memory (CEDOC) of the Faculty of Education, located at UFMG –to, finally, focus on the potentialities of the archive of the Postgraduate Program in Education from UFMG, for researches about the history of Postgraduate and research in Brazil.