Pode a morte ensinar história? Uso de Lego para entender cidadania nos cemitérios Santa Isabel e Cruz Vermelha (Aracaju-SE)

Abstract

The work contains the initial reflections of an ongoing research in the Professional Masters in History Teaching at the Federal University of Sergipe (ProfHistória/UFS), aligned with the research line “Historical knowledge in different spaces of memory”. The studies approach the space of the Cruz Vermelha and Santa Isabel cemeteries, for the elaboration, as both cemeteries are intended for socioeconomic burials with different hierarchies in Aracaju/SE. While the Cruz Vermelha Cemetery serves the underprivileged in the city, the Santa Isabel Cemetery remains restricted to the local elite. In this way, the idea of “well dying as a legacy” and mortuary architecture as a work of art contrasts with the idea of “forgetfulness” in the simplicity of the set of drawers and unadorned tombs. As a general objective, it is intended to use Lego blocks in the construction of a differential perspective in the didactic process of death as a historical source aimed at students of Youth and Adult Education for High School (EJAEM). The specific objectives of this work are: 1. To develop a pedagogical tool that helps in the teaching and learning of the student and in the teaching practice of teaching History. 2. Stimulate the production of reflections on the importance of memory in everyday life, combined with the collective construction of citizenship; 3. Relate the historicity of the cemeteries of Aracaju-SE as “different spaces of knowledge and memory” for public classes. The methodological procedures follow a qualitative aspect of action research from the survey of textual and imagery sources, in addition to the mapping of the sites. The elaboration of the process starts from the conception of the use of Lego blocks as an educational game in the construction of burial spaces, with challenges and letters of historical information that dialogue with local history, cemetery practices and the concepts of citizenship in time and space.