EDUCAÇÃO E INFÂNCIAS: ENTRE MEMÓRIAS E HISTÓRIAS NO MUSEU DAS COISAS BANAIS

Abstract

This study is located in the area of concentration of education in the research line Education, Childhood and Diversities. The aim of this dissertation is to establish the relationship between memory, history and education through the objects that refer to childhood, from the exhibition Objects that approach inside the house, which belongs to the Virtual Museum of Banal Things (MCB), Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel). Some fundamental questions guide the study: how are the objects reminiscent of childhood inserted in the museum? What is the relationship between memory, objects and narrative? To understand it, I analyze how objects underpin the memory of subjects, considering that objects mediate human relationships, childhood trajectories, games and toys. These objects, in turn, are also loaded with biographical narratives, which represent some historical events. On the theoretical level, I operate from the perspective of the museology of affection (Chagas, 2009), because it expands and integrates clippings taking as a reference the concept of rhizome established by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (1995). Still on the theoretical level, I work under interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary concepts, concentrating on the areas of Education, Social Memory, History and Museology, which, in turn, expand the field of research in relation to objects and thematic narratives. With regard to the methodological body, the research techniques should be appropriate to the object of study (Bosi, 1993), therefore, I opt for a predominantly qualitative research, which establishes the thematic narrative as a technique for data collection and analysis. In this sense, I aim to analyze the interfaces between memory, history and education, taking dolls and stuffed animals as analysis documents. Thus, the research points to the perspective of the museum experience, considering it as a place and a means of memory, which can bequeath different historical narratives about cultural goods.