A escola vai ao museu!? Investigando as ações de Educação Não Formal nas séries finais do Ensino Fundamental de escolas municipais de Uberaba - MG

Abstract

School education, commonly called Formal Education, invariably needs support to align with the challenges of the contemporary, globalized, interactive, and technological world. Non Formal Education, represented in one of its aspects by museums, is a strong ally in the development of skills that actually culminate in a humanized and interactionist perspective, a partner of Formal Education. This research seeks to verify and discuss the view of the pedagogical coordinators and also of the Department of Elementary Education of the Municipal Secretariat of Education (SEMED) of Uberaba - MG and their interpretations about Non Formal Education. We have as a background a clipping of the Non Formal Education of the municipality, the museums listed by the Cultural Foundation and the Uberaba City Hall. We work specifically with Elementary School II. We use theoretical contributions of exploratory research through official documents that guide the pedagogical practice in the city, as well as semi-structured interviews and structured questionnaires with some protagonists who coordinate the educational process, such as the manager of the Department of Elementary Education and the pedagogical coordinators of this segment. We realize that alignments between Formal and Non-Formal Education are needed in the city of Uberaba, both in guiding educational documents and in formative actions. That these reflections can contribute to the solidification of the approximation between Non Formal Education and Formal Education, or, if this approach in the municipality is not yet adequate, it is expected to contribute to the beginning of this partnership.