History teaching and heritage education in Rio Grande/RS: proposition of activities in the “scale game”

Abstract

The text presents considerations for the establishment of practical and concrete relations between History teaching and Heritage Education in the city of Rio Grande/RS, which also can be used as a basis for replications in other local contexts. The idea goes through a brief theoretical and methodological outline about the conceptualization of historical cultural heritage and the applicability of Heritage Education, besides the dialogue with education. The focus, then, is on History teaching from these points and taking into account a dynamic in the "scale game" between the macro and micro aspects. The established relationships take place between the traditional contents of the school History curriculum and the cultural goods of Rio Grande to be perceived with the methodology of Heritage Education in the dynamics between scales. Thus, the macro aspect - represented by the curricular contents - finds the micro aspect - represented by the cultural goods - in the experience of History teaching. Finally, the text reach heritage’s pedagogical aspect to be valued in History teaching, from the provision of a base of material to support teachers, benefiting those areas.