Retratos da escola: a organização do acervo fotográfico e a utilização de imagens como fontes em história da educação

Abstract

This research started with the organization of pictures about the State's School Rotary Dr. Nelson de Araujo, in the city of Dourados, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, in the period lion 1980 to 2010. About this, we search for theoretical references that conceive pictures as document, as an source in Educacional History. We look for theories in Social Sciences, Comunication and History, to understand the importance of pictures as a record of history and memory of scholar institution. Our research also extended with readings in the field of archives, what helped us to work in the organization of the pictures of the school. In the same time, we encourage a culture of organization, through a plan of intervention in the school. We had developed a project with students and teachers to encourage the scholar comunity to archive, organize and deliver your imagery memory. Using technological resources available at school, such as computer, scanner, digital camera and printer, we promote the cataloging and digitization of the school photographic collection. We organize three types of image archives: a physical collection with the original images, and a digital archive for provision and access. Although it wasn't part of the objective, we made an analysis of some images, to show how its possible to make a dialogue with the images, as a way to study the historical context the school.