Of how old papers became a pedagogical experience.

Documents, teaching and Historical research

Abstract

This article approaches an experience developed from documentation which was dispersed and considered lost, although it was located at Municipal Council of João Pessoa (Brazil) in 2017. The mainly part of this documentation is concerning from the first decades of 19th Century and contains diversified information about the old city as known as Parahyba. When we get in touch with this documentation, we have begun to developed efforts to ensure the restoration for researching and diffusion of these contents. Through the cooperation with public institutions, this work has a main purpose - the technical procedures for restoration and conservation of this collection as well researching and disclosing this documentation. Regarding that the second main object of this article, in addition is to provide access of part of this digitalized material for researchers and also was developed many Workshops for beginners to research as part of History subject, during the graduation of this University, including initial procedures concerning documental researches as paleography concepts, hypothesis formulation, reviewed relevant bibliography according the subject, presentation of the results using slideshows and textual production posted on a blog. Those Workshops have involved more than two dozen of students doing bachelor`s degree and master`s program or PhD degree, moreover with elementary school teachers which implies in this educational discipline scope for bachelors as connected to the elementary education and further more. In terms of results, in addition to preserve and disclosure the referred documentation, the experience intends claim a requirement of a strong link between training researchers and teachers in graduation in History.