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Research and Learning Communities (ReLeCo)

2. Memory, Citizenship and Sociomuseology

This ReLeCo integrates the areas of heritage, history of education and social museology from a Freirean and sociomuseological perspective, as a community-based dialogical practice and social intervention based on the sharing of knowledge. It seeks to understand how different manifestations of human activity intersect, recognising their common roots, with a view to understanding and overcoming contemporary societal challenges in articulating the relationship between culture, education and memory. Culture as a psychological and emotional unit places us within a people's system of values that serve as potential guides for action. Education as a complex process of transmitting culture, training and valuing the human condition. Memory as a way of capitalising on and problematising knowledge of the complexity of the processes that made man to be man.

This ReLeCo, in organic partnership with the UNESCO Chair "Education, Citizenship and Cultural Diversity", articulates the pursuit of sustainable development goals, namely quality education (4), gender equality (5) and the reduction of inequalities (10), and combines a more reflective area with a more interventionist one, a process that translates into different ways of contributing to the clarification, recognition and promotion of human rights. Dedicated to these assumptions, this ReLeCo has established 5 main areas that are reflected in the development of its research and social intervention orientations:

  1. Contemporary memories, education from the margins, dictatorship and democracy;
  2. Interpreting in the place of memory the problematising knowledge that makes it possible to promote critical awareness of human doing;
  3. Discuss the relationship between culture, education and memory in a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary way;
  4. Post-colonial processes in Portugal: born and migrants, Afro-descendant issues;
  5. Sociomuseology, Museology and Intersectionality: race, gender and class.

Coordenation team

Other Researches

Researchers in Training