SCHOOL ARCHIVES AND DIGITAL COLLECTIONS IN THE BRAZILIAN NORTHEAST:

limits and possibilities

Abstract

The article deals with the importance of school archives for the history of education. These, used appropriately and made available on websites, repositories, memory centers, etc., constitute an inexhaustible source of research at a regional, national and international level. In this article, we present the cleaning, digitization and cataloging work carried out by postgraduate students, linked to the Group of Studies and Research in History and Education in the Sertão do São Francisco – Gephesf and to the Postgraduate Programs in the area of Education. University of Pernambuco, Campus Petrolina and Mata Norte. This work constitutes one of the requirements of the professional master's course that, in addition to the dissertation, a product must be presented. At this stage, digital collections from school institutions in the states of Pernambuco, Bahia and Piauí have been organized. Regarding methodology, the work brings together digital collections from gymnasiums and multipurpose schools between the 1940s and 1970s, with emphasis on the survey carried out at the Emídio Cavalcanti de Albuquerque Polyvalent School, located in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, on the coast of Pernambuco. We are interested in understanding how the conservation and/or preservation process has affected/modified the school community's view of the importance of preserving the school's history and memory. The text dialogues with the studies of Souza (2014); Furtado (2011); Santos (2015); Macedo & Goellner (2018).