Heritage Education

The Heritage Education Program has three subprograms:

• Vale Conhecer
• Vale Promover
• Vale Registrar

Statistics

The Trem da Vale Heritage Educational Program has already benefited close to 20.023 children and teenagers from both state and municipal public school systems of Ouro Preto and Mariana in two years of activities.

This number accounts for 50% of the total number of students enrolled in public schools in both cities.

During the same period, Ouro Preto and Mariana railway stations received 871.000 visitors and 452. 000 people took the train ride.

Learn detailed numbers of beneficiaries in each subprogram of the Trem da Vale Heritage Educational Program. The project’s actions are directed at students, teachers, and residents of these two cities in Minas Gerais.

Vale Conhecer - Statistics [+]

As one of the thrusts of Vale Conhecer subprogram, the heritage education for the school community has directly benefited 263 teachers and 22 schools within the region.

Indirect beneficiaries amounted to8.025 students and 855 members of the school community.

In 2006, 4.000 heritage education kits and 250 Heritage Education: a kit of ideas readers were distributed. The reader was developed by teachers and presents ten ways to use the kit in the classroom as pedagogical material. From 2006 to 2010, the Reading Incentive Plan has already benefited more than 161.000 people.

Vale Promover - Statistics [+]

In the Vale Promover subprogram, 28 circuits were developed for public schools, benefiting 20.023 elementary school students and 1.690 teachers. Futhermore 37.000 people made the train ride for free within the circuits.

Vale Registrar - Statistics [+]

So far, Vale Registrar has conducted, catalogued, and published 110 Thematic and Life History interviews and 42 Life History interviews. The Narration Cabins have recorded 1.267 narratives, which gave rise to four thematic videos to be shown on the railway station totems: two related to cuisine and two concerning local festivals.

Eleven courses were also promoted within the scope of the subprogram.The video classes on Heritage Education for Teachers had 151 participants, who produced three documentaries on a DVD.

Another DVD with four documentaries produced during the workshop was also released by the 19 teenagers who participated in the Education for Young Multiplying Agents in Heritage Education and Video.

Both Video Editing Courses, with a total of 16 students, resulted in a third DVD, consisting of work they had edited.