Volume 68, 2018
Philosophy of Values
Kate Fabiani Rigo
Pages 49-53
Graveyard at School
Discussing Death and Cemeteries in the Humanities Classes
The communication is about the space graveyard as an educational tool for humanities classes, since it provides numerous attributes for the study of religion, art, and especially in philosophy classes, on the topic death and history. The communication aims to suggest a methodology that encourages new teaching practices that meet the contemporary teenager that every day is more inserted in virtual reality and real distanced every day. We believe that the study of representations of Death in the graveyard art will contribute to the approximation of teenager with related issues its own finitude, in addition to providing the student and the teacher a space of exchange, identification and reflection on various themes and values that permeate our lives and that are of fundamental importance for the composition of adults who will compose the society of the future. Working with the dying and the graveyard in classroom enables the realization of interdisciplinary work, besides providing a reflection about teaching practice, acting in the formation of the identity of the student, the ability to create and share meaningful experiences in education space, in developing reaffirmation of values and cultures and beliefs, as well as the formation of a future centered consciousness in the human condition, not just market.