Acervo digital da E. E. Raul Soares: diálogos entre ensino de história, escola e memória

Abstract

The research Digital Archive of Escola Estadual Raul Soares: Dialogues among History Teaching, School, and Memory aimed to build a digital space through the selection, digitalization, and organization of pressed historical sources, photography, and the proposition of didactic activities to explore them in History classes of Basic Education. The creation of this archive was based on a theoretical-methodological discussion that approaches concepts such as memory, historical heritage, historical sources, local history, history of school institutions, public history, pedagogical use of digital technologies, historical-digital lettering in the crisscrossing with studies about methodologies of History Teaching and Patrimonial Education. Escola Estadual Raul Soares is 113 years old and occupies the same location for 95 years, the same building that was built to house its installations. The architectonical peculiarities of this building, along with the historical value of the school’s memory, while characters of the urban landscape, and Araguari’s culture, contributed to the Division of the Historical and Cultural Heritage of Araguari accomplished the process of historical protection of this building. Researching these memories, preserving and sharing them digitally, problematizing its relations with the city, in a perspective that projects the urban space as a dispute arena, and the Patrimonial Education as a possibility of identifying the selections made in the building processes of certain identities is an important opportunity to approximate History Teaching from the perspectives lived by the students and making it more meaningful. Thus, the Digital Archive of Escola Estadual Raul Soares is going to pursue, as the main objective, to take over the function of a preservation space and sharing of historical sources and content production about the memories of the school, mainly during History classes.