Stage experiment at MAE: reports and case studies.

Abstract

The article reports a working experiment with students of History at PUCSP (Pontifical Catholic University in São Paulo) and at the Cultural Diffusion Division of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at São Paulo University. It contextualizes the beginning of this partnership by matching the area concerns and its course and traineeship. It tries to rebuild 14 years of work, clarifying objectives, methodology, evaluation and the meaning of this stage to the graduates’ development. The aim of the course as well as of the stage is to create the most suitable ways to stimulate the reflection about the pedagogical practice, in a critical relationship with the produced knowledge; to develop enough competence for a critical analysis of the sources; and to enlarge the dimension of the material documents used as source. The methodology used in the course as well as in the stage tries to establish a dialogue with the sources and to explore the MAE’s archaeological documentation as a starting point to the discussion of the concepts in the area of human sciences.