Os sentidos atribuídos por jovens ao patrimônio histórico da Cidade de Goiás - GO

Abstract

This Dissertation is linked to the Stricto Sensu Graduate Program in Education of the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás in the research line: Education, Society and Culture. The central question that we propose to answer with this study is: what is the meaning that young people attribute to the Historical Heritage of the City of Goiás? The general objective seeks to unveil the relationships that a group of young people, high school students from the state public school Lyceu de Goyaz Professor Alcide Jube, establish with the tangible and intangible historical heritage of the City of Goiás. With a view to the formation of collective memory in the construction and preservation of a people's culture. The research was developed with a qualitative nature and resorted to documents related to the reality of the Historical Heritage of the city of Goiás, and the application of questionnaires with the support of teachers, a group of 40 young people, students of the state public school Lyceu de Goyaz Professor Alcide Jube, were willing to participate in the research and answer the socioeconomic and cultural questionnaire. With an exploratory and descriptive character, from the group of 40 young people, interviews were conducted with 07 participants, aged between 15 and 18 years. However, for the constitution of the theoretical corpus of this study, a documentary analysis was used from the bibliographies of Paul Ricoeur (2007), Maurice Halbwachs (1990) and Henri Lefebvre (1991), in order to consider the historical time of the city of Goiás until the conquest of the title of World Heritage by UNESCO and the scenario of the young participants. Therefore, it was observed, through the young students of the above-mentioned school, results of the researches referring to the meaning that the young people attribute to the Historical Heritage of the City of Goiás, a superficial knowledge about the history of the city, holder of the title of World Heritage by UNESCO and a scarce involvement with the existing Monuments. However, these young people express memories transmitted by their families and project the development of their future: higher education and profession, in another city