Porque a Educação Museal é Formal

uma proposta de reflexão sobre o compromisso educacional dos museus e demais processos museais.

Abstract

schools and museums are spaces for the production and re-elaboration of subjectivities and the expansion of people's feelings, in their attribution of meanings to themselves, to things, to places, to life. Museums and schools are potential spaces for experiences of meaning (and resignification) of reality and for people to positively interfere in society. Debating the formal character of Museum Education seems to us to be a sine qua non condition for us to understand how this form of emancipatory education, which promotes the autonomy of the students, offers them the conditions to construct, in a free and autonomous way, mechanisms and dialogical strategies for the social enjoyment of memory. Likewise, we propose to think about formal education differently from schooling, as it is normally referred to, but, assuming that education is, in itself, an intentional and systemic process, which organizes pedagogical thinking in terms of training for transformation and that participates in human development individually and collectively.