ABSTRACT

This text seeks to contribute to the study of children’s social representations of the city, understood as a material, cultural matrix and artifact, and therefore as a legitimate object about which different social groups share and produce meanings. Historic city centers have their own objectifications because their spaces bear the marks of historical events, evoke the past in their specific form of organization, and tell the memory of the place. Specifically, the debate presented aims to analyze the perezhivaniya of children in the Historic Center of Cuiabá, considering the physical space as a memory site, affections and cultural identity, sustained by a representational project associated with different and contradictory historically constituted values. This is a single case study, anchored in a dialogical epistemology, whose subjects are children between the ages of 7 and 11 who participate in a cultural project. The data were collected through a perezhivanie in the historic center of Cuiabá, using a narrative script. The data were grouped into episodes and analyzed according to the concept of comprehensive analysis. The children of this study revealed the phenomenon of the emptying and silencing of the Historic Center and the rupture of the intergenerational dialogue that has prevented the replacement of social memory, with the Historic Center as a witness.

Keywords:
Heritage Education; Social Representations; Children; Historic Center