The Educational Memory Space of the Army Personnel Studies Center: an experience report

Abstract

Based on documentary and bibliographical research on the history of education, museology and heritage, this work aims to characterize the Educational Memory Space Project, at the Army Personnel Studies Center, currently under construction, a school that has played a crucial role in the Army's educational policies since 1965, participating in several reforms of Professional Education and military schools. With the aim of valuing Education within the Army and countering the erasure of the pedagogical focus in the academic field of Defense, the CEP/FDC Memory Space Project emphasized the preservation of rare documents and bibliographic collections and disseminated a historiographical narrative, approached through a timeline, on the structuring of the Army's education system, from the 1930s onwards, under the influence of active methods, in the wake of the military mission of France and the United States and exchanges with the Pioneers of New Education.  From this perspective, through the work of the CEP/FDC, the education system was influenced by pedagogical technicalism, which was mitigated after educational reforms implemented in the 1990s and, since 2013, in favor of active methodologies and constructivism. The Memory Space also includes displays with books from the date of their incorporation into the collection, with explanations of the time frames from the perspective of the History of Reading, as well as a photographic wall and a display table with rare documents.