"Era uma escola muito engraçada, não tinha teto, não tinha nada...": uma narrativa sobre a Escola Rural Água do Mandí

Abstract

The objective of this work is to create historical sources through accounts of people who experienced, in some way, the Água do Mandí Rural School, from 1947 to 1985, and to trigger a narrative that records a history of this school. Therefore, we mobilized Oral History as a methodological framework for conducting the interviews. The analysis was based on the narrative analysis of narratives and we sought, through reports and historical sources, to register historical events relevant to the time and, through this, a historical record of this school, physically extinct in the contemporary context was elaborated. This historical record was based on an adaptation of the poem “A casa” by Vinicius de Moraes, in which, for each passage, a historical event of this school is present, articulated with the narratives of the collaborators. Through this study, an educational product was created in the form of a historical collection, “Historical record of a very funny school: Escola Rural Água do Mandí”, which will be made available to the municipal museum.