Overview about public school as immaterial patrimony

Abstract

This review article is an excerpt from a monograph entitled: “Public School as Immaterial Patrimony” (MOREIRA, 2021). This work intends to reveal in a more objective and specific way the characterization and the notion of public school as an immaterial patrimony. In other words, a proposal full of originality in conceiving a new panorama of understanding and interpretation of public schools. Not only, it is important to point out the question of how to attribute value and recognition of public schools as intangible heritage in a world dictated by ideological and hegemonic processes of the “globalization of perversity” (SANTOS, 2001). The research was qualitative and took place through a bibliographic survey, in order to better clarify the topic. Thus, the core of this work was to explain the cultural and intellectual heritage also produced within this memorable space, the school, as something worthy of recognition and protection in its entirety. Emphasizing that the desired recognition will not be achieved in a simple way, as it became clear that studies so far are insufficient to theorize and present effective solutions. However, this simple idea can be the prelude to a better way in the path of this knowledge.