Educação e ação cultural: memorial da Balaiada, Caxias - Maranhão

Abstract

In this paper, it is presented the results of the Action Research developed in the scope of the Postgraduate Program in Arts, Heritage and Museology, Professional Master’s, of the Federal University of Piauí, Mid-North of Brazil. These are studies and intervention in educational actions, namely Education and Cultural Action at the Balaiada Memorial in Caxias, Maranhão. As a result it was produced a Catalog of Cultural Education and Action for the Memorial, a teaching and pedagogical instrument to be applied with students and teachers from basic education schools in Caxias, MA, focusing on heritage, history and cultural diversity. A document that contributes to the closer relationship between the schools and the Memorial, providing reflections, exchanges of knowledge, and salutary experiences, broadening the understanding of heritage education from experiences at the Balaiada Memorial, contributing with dialogues and sharing multiple perspectives on the stories and memories of its people, which evidences the construction of knowledge enabling the collective consciousness surrounding the patrimony of the city from the Balaiada Memorial. The Education and Cultural Action catalog will subsidize teachers and students, offering artistic and cultural actions associated with the Balaiada Revolt in Maranhão, as well as disseminating the educational practices developed in the museum, through activities and actions that strengthen the cultural and patrimonial identity of the city, residents, families and students visiting the museum. We highlight the contributions of art in the educational activities of the Memorial, presenting itself in a significant way as a factor of educational, social and political insertion, enabling interaction with cultural plurality, with the construction of values that preserve the historical-cultural patrimony of the territory. Aware of the responsibility to subsidize the work of educators, it is proposed as a didactic-pedagogical tool a catalog composed of pieces from the collection of the memorial, with suggestions of activities to be developed, with accessible and playful language, that stimulates curiosity in knowing the Balaiada Memorial Museum. The material is a resource of didactic support that builds a relationship between exposure and the visitor, in order to awaken in the residents and general public the responsibility in preserving the patrimony of any nature. The research was based on the methodology research-action for intervening in some activities developed in the place, field research, for acknowledging that the educational actions were the core of interest in researching the Balaiada Memorial and in the theoretical basis, we used to mark the practices experiences of visits and mediations. We used Cândido (2014), Barbosa (2008), Brazil (2006), Gaioso et al (2013), among others. It is important to highlight the results of the observations and the changes that occurred in the period from September to December 2016. The final results of the activities process revealed significant values in the educational perspective, corroborating in the mediations and technical and artistic intervention in the development of the activities in which the Memorial proposed to carry out through its existing educational actions, contributing in the strengthening of ideas-sharing proposals, collaborating to a new learning dynamics in museological spaces.