CHILDREN AND SOCIAL MUSEOLOGY: SAFEGUARDING A CAIÇARA TERRITORY

SAFEGUARDING A CAIÇARA TERRITORY

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https://doi.org/10.34019/2447-5246.2025.v30.47516

Abstract

This article narrates and reflects on the process of creating the Museu Vivo Caiçara da Praia Grande da Cajaíba, connecting it with key concepts in the field of social museology, such as heritage, safeguarding, and memory. It also contributes to the debate by incorporating perspectives on territory, cosmopolitics, and counter-coloniality. The museum's collection consists of materials produced about (and sometimes with) the community, aiming to inventory the cultural assets embedded in the ways of making and living inscribed in the bodies and territory of the community. The museum's curation involves the participation of children, young people, and elders engaged in a process of popular and museum education to defend their territory and memory. The thread connecting the narratives within the museum emerged from workshops with the community’s young people and children, in dialogue with Masters Altamiro, Dona Jandira, and Dona Dica, who are recognized for their traditional Caiçara knowledge and practices.

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Lucia Cavalieri, Universidade Federal Fluminense Faculdade de Educação

She has been teaching in higher education at the School of Education of Fluminense Federal University (FEUFF) since 2013. Her field of work, interest, and passion includes popular education, environmental education, museum education, the relationship between theory and practice in teacher training, rural education, peasantry and everyday life, nature and children, and native epistemologies (masters of culture and nature). She is a member of the Early Childhood in Museums Network (PiMu), the GT22 (Environmental Education) working group of ANPED, the Laboratory of Education and Heritage (LABOEP), and the Encontro de Saberes Project at UFF. She coordinates the extension project "Museu Vivo Caiçara". She has been Martin's mother since 2008.

Dafne Rozencwaig Souza, Universidade Federal Fluminense

PhD candidate in Education at the Graduate Program in Education (PPGE) at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF). Master in Education from the Graduate Program in Education (PPGEdu) at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO).

José Artur Barroso Fernandes, Universidade Federal Fluminense

Professor at the Department of Society, Education, and Knowledge (SSE) at the School of Education of Fluminense Federal University (UFF). He holds a bachelor's and a teaching degree in Biological Sciences from the University of São Paulo (1991), a master's and a PhD in Education from the University of São Paulo (2001 and 2007), and a postdoctoral degree from the School of Teacher Education at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2015). He was the editor of the Revista de Ensino de Biologia of SBEnBio – Brazilian Association for Biology Education from 2016 to 2020. He has experience as a professor and researcher in the field of Education, working on topics such as multimodal communication, curriculum, teacher training, science teaching, environmental education, field activities, tourism, non-formal education, and the development of educational materials.

Thatiana Duarte Lourival, Observatório de Territórios Sustentáveis e Saudáveis da Bocaina

Researcher at the Observatory of Healthy and Sustainable Territories of Bocaina (OTSS), Brazil. Lawyer for the Forum of Traditional Communities (FCT), Brazil.

Published

2025-05-23

How to Cite

Cavalieri, L., Souza, D. R. ., Fernandes, J. A. B. ., & Lourival, T. D. . (2025). CHILDREN AND SOCIAL MUSEOLOGY: SAFEGUARDING A CAIÇARA TERRITORY: SAFEGUARDING A CAIÇARA TERRITORY. Educação Em Foco, 30(Dossiê Temático), e30021. https://doi.org/10.34019/2447-5246.2025.v30.47516

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Dossiê: Educação museal com bebês e crianças: patrimônio cultural e vivências