Educação patrimonial por meio das tecnologias móveis na educação não formal: aplicativo Passeio Cultural - Ponta Grossa

Abstract

Currently, heritage education is an extremely important field in debates around education and cultural heritage. For this reason, the field must be prepared to face and expand issues such as the field of work, reflection and action. Heritage education has gained prominence in academia only in recent decades, and as it is a recent field of research, the need for theoretical discussion on the subject is evident. Currently, reflections on heritage education are permanently focused on the relationship with the community, being a participatory and fundamental agent in the construction of concepts around cultural heritage. In this way, heritage education becomes a complex field due to a multiple educational offer in cultural contexts that go beyond formal education as the only educational agent, enabling connections between these traditional learning spaces and other dimensions of people's lives. This perspective, which aims at heritage education as a process, seeks to establish new relationships between the subject and his heritage in all its diversity. Non-formal education starts to play an important role in heritage education, based on non-formal education elements of (re) creation of conceptions and interpretations about the world. An important feature in non-formal education is pedagogical practices that aim to fight inequality and hierarchies or strengthen the construction of bonds of belonging for the construction of individual and collective cultural identity. To establish this relationship of using mobile devices, when it starts to have a pedagogical focus, it gives rise to a model called mobile learning - m-learning. This education model has the role of strengthening forms of interaction and cooperation, aiming to strengthen learning in multiple contexts that go beyond traditional contexts. M-learning brings the subject closer to reality, providing new conditions for the execution and feasibility of pedagogical projects in non-formal education. From this perspective, the application called “Passeio Cultural - Ponta Grossa” was developed, which consists of integrating the processes of appreciation, recognition and preservation of cultural heritage, reproducing audiovisual information as the user approaches historic properties that were in inventory in the city of Ponta Grossa. To validate the App, the Delphi method was developed, which consists of obtaining expert opinions to increase the accuracy of unknown parameters, and thus deduce, refine and generate results on a given topic. The specialists who participated in the survey were divided into specialists in the cultural area - EC and specialists in the technological area - ET, and six specialists from each area participated. Data collection was carried out in two rounds of questions and answers, through a semi structured questionnaire, using the 'Google forms' tool. For data analysis, content analysis was used. The results showed that this dissertation fulfills the objective of establishing a relationship between heritage education, non-formal education and m-learning.