Proposta de aulas práticas cotidianizadas de química para estudantes de graduação em conservação-restauração de bens culturais

Abstract

Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Heritage is an interdisciplinary profession which encompasses disciplines of the artistic, humanistic, and life science fields, such as Chemistry. The training of professionals in this area requires an interdisciplinary curriculum in which the disciplines can dialogue between themselves also using an interdisciplinary approach. Regarding the discipline of Chemistry, an experimental course was proposed to support the theoretical classes aiming at helping students' learning. The elaboration process of the experimental classes started initially from a theoretical approach in which the assumptions of significant learning, teaching everyday chemistry and conceptual profile theory were used. The themes of the practical classes were chosen in an interdisciplinary approach using topics from the context of cultural heritage such as pigments, binders, oil paint, paper, stone and metal sculptures and metal. The chemical experiments were proposed in a way they would allow the understanding of the properties of these materials, their deterioration and restoration. The topics were organized aiming at a significant conceptual change by the students.