A história oral como instrumento para o ensino na Educação Agrícola: memórias da colonização do oeste catarinense

Abstract

This research aims to contextualise the representation of students of the Escola Agroténica Federal de Concordia - Santa Catarina (EAFC/SC) and their families in relation to their origins and about the role that land owning assumes in the process, verifying the potenciality of Oral History methodology uses in school projects. This works also intends to be in line with the National Curricular Guidelines for Secondary Education (DCNEM s) which propose scholar researches as a particularly appropriated way to promote the school subjects contextualization and Cultural Studies in Education, understanding school space as a construction space of cultural meanings, struggles and resistance, not only as a place of knowledge transmissio n. In this research, the teachers, understood as research teachers start to study the cultural repertoire brought by students and also by others in which the school is situated so that the curriculum may incorporate and show lived subjects, articulating them with school subjects. In this perspective, the use of Oral History in school and/or in community projects may be an important instrument to study the social-cultural context in which the school is inserted, so that the educational instituition approaches the community, the teachers come close to the students and teaching is related to the research.