Paisagens patrimoniais do Bon Odori no contexto da educação geográfica

Abstract

The present work proposes a systematization of the geographic and cultural aspects of a Japanese festival that was contextualized to Brazil and is called Bon Odori. The focus on nipoBrazilian festive heritage is justified by the importance of establishing an intercultural dialogue about the different cultures in the local and alternate spaces of students. The study was based on the concept of heritage landscape to approach the festival as a social and symbolic construction. In the educational field was made an analysis about the function of the image as part of the geographic education methodology. In the teacher's interaction, the teaching material consisted of the use of photographs and infographics to present and mediate knowledge about the meanings and heritage representations of Bon Odori. Thus, this analysis is divided into two parts: the first presents the elements of the symbolic practice in Japan Bon Festival is then presented with an initial quantitative survey about Bon Festival in Brazil. Then, the festive examples located in the cities of Pereira Barreto (São Paulo), Campo Grande (Mato Grosso do Sul), Maringá (Paraná), Atibaia (São Paulo), Salvador (Bahia), Tomé-Açu (Pará) and Goiânia (Goiás) to analyze Bon Odori as part of the Japanese-Brazilian cultural identity. The locations were chosen based on the availability of academic papers, images and audiovisual resources about them. The second part of this work consists of research, procedures and reflections acquired in the teacher interaction during the fourth supervised internship. In the school analysis, it was taken into account that the worldwide pandemic period, resulting from the dissemination of the COVID-19 virus, caused the restriction of on-site activities in public schools. In this sense, the research was carried out in a context where interactions between teachers and students were restricted to strictly virtual resources. It is concluded that the symbolic representation of Bon Odori in Brazil is similar to that observed in Japan. Landscape studies on this festival need to continue, as its symbolic practices are part of the immaterial expressions of the nipo-Brazilian communities. Furthermore, the challenges of teaching in the midst of a period of social isolation resulting from a pandemic are reported. Finally, we verified the importance of heritage studies and care in the exercise of images for school geography.