The collection of the Documental Memory of the city of São Paulo:
contributions to the History of educational heritage
Abstract
The aim of the article is to problematize the role of school artifacts in the constitution of memory and identity of the school in São Paulo. It takes as object the historical collection of the Documental Memory, of the Municipal Secretary of Education, which keeps a valuable document mass about the history of Education in the city of São Paulo since the 1930s. The methodological procedures are anchored in the History of Material Culture. The evidence found in this collection emerges as cultural patrimony, heritage and memory of something that has been consolidated over time and that refers to the identity of the school in the city of São Paulo