O papel educativo dos museus de Uberaba/MG: um olhar a partir da educação patrimonial

Abstract

Heritage education seeks preservation, conservation and cultural valorization and can be applied in various fields, including monuments, cultural manifestations, rural communities, museums and others. There is an adherence between heritage education and museums, which were the object of this research, characterized by being institutions at the service of society, through preservation actions, study, collections of apparatuses and dissemination. Actions of these institutions are not for profit and within them often occur non-formal education processes, activities that take place outside the formal education system, the school. This dissertation proposes to investigate the educational roles of four (4) museums located in the city of Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Thus, has as its theme the heritage education and the museums. To achieve this goal, it seeks to densely describe the 4 (four) museums from the perspective of heritage education. The methodological procedures were based on a literature review pertinent to the theme, documentary analysis, observations and an individual semi-structured interview with each manager of each institution. From this survey and subsequent analyzes through three axes: (i) conception of heritage education, (ii) educational actions in the museums and (iii) educational roles of the museums agents. It was possible to identify the structure and general organization of these museums, as the perception of the managers on the heritage education and its occurrence in the spaces they manage, the functions of educational agents and the educational actions of these spaces. Interviewees consider that institutions/museums are spaces for lay people to educate themselves and that it is important to adapt the language for visits with different audiences. It is understood from the analyzes carried out that there were disparities between museums. A museum is further in the heritage education process and concerned to go beyond the superficial, to identify its surroundings, the other unstructured in relation to the visits monitored, the absence of monitors in these spaces, a point that may be fundamental for educational actions in museums. Other two museums managers are not yet prepared for the mediation process of heritage education, due to lack of investment, staff and training of them.