Arquivos escolares: os primeiros passos na aplicabilidade da Tabela De Temporalidade de Documentos nas Escolas Municipais do Natal/RN

Abstract

The study hereby explores the context of School Archives, adopting a perspective based on the document management with focus on the applicability of Records Schedule. The main objective of this work is therefore analyzing the impacts of Records Schedule in municipal public educational system in the city of Natal (RN, Brazil). The methodology applied for the research embraces an inductive and structuralist approach and includes the bibliographic survey, based on the review of books, papers and official documents. The data gathering was concretized by means of an online structured questionnaire answered by secretaries of the mentioned schools. Spreading knowledge about the tool (one of the outcomes of this study) was identified as the initial effort to implement the Records Schedule as part of the schools’ document management. In the same sense, the lack of awareness, detected in the answers to the set of questions, can lead to excessive accumulation of archive in these institutions. As a conclusion, a good document management can be fruitful, since the school archives remain an important source of information. Besides their regular content, these documents are even capable of describing the local community’s history and culture, as well as revitalizing the history of education in Natal/RN.