THE SCHOOL ARCHIVE, THE UNIVERSITY AND THE SCHOOL

possible dialogs

Abstract

The main objective of this study is to discuss how school archives may be efficient spaces to construct a dialog between the university and the school, and between the school and the community. This discussion is based on projects which have been proposed and developed at the Universidade Federal do Paraná: a research project; the organization and cataloguing of the school archive that belongs to the Colégio Estadual do Paraná; a database about the archive; the organization of a study group to discuss the possibilities of using the school archive in classes as well as in other activities and in school projects; and an extension course about the topic. In this paper, I also discuss the literature that based these activities, and the possibilities and the limits of implementation and articulation of these projects, mainly its theoretical-methodological issues.