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Cultural Heritage; Political Pedagogical Project; Early Childhood Education; Curriculum; São Gonçalo do Amarante/RN.
Cultural Heritage can be understood as a set of knowledge and inhabited spaces, meanings and re-meanings by subjects, which reveal the history of a people (Amaral, 2020) and contribute to the construction of cultural identities. The Cultural Heritage of the municipality of São Gonçalo do Amarante/RN encompasses material and immaterial aspects of local culture, contributing to the construction of the identity of its people. Based on the understanding that Cultural Heritage must be an inherent element in the preparation of pedagogical documents aimed at children and Early Childhood Education teachers. The objective was to analyze how the Cultural Heritage of the municipality of São Gonçalo do Amarante/RN is materialized in the Political Pedagogical Projects of the Municipal Early Childhood Education Centers. To this end, the research is anchored in the concept of Cultural Heritage based on Oliveira, (2023), Brito (2022), Amaral (2020), (Oliveira and Souza, 2019), Araújo (2015), Gurgel (2010), Gonçalves (2009) and Brasil (1988), in the concept of Political Pedagogical Project in authors such as Veiga (2003, 1998) and Vasconcellos (2002) and in the concept of Curriculum in Early Childhood Education based on the studies of Dantas (2016), Moreira and Candau (2007) and Moreira and Silva (2005). The methodological approach was qualitative with bibliographic studies and documentary analysis, supported by studies such as those by Gil (2002) and Bourguignon (2019). Of the thirteen Municipal Early Childhood Education Centers in the municipality, twelve Political Pedagogical Projects were analyzed based on the theoretical framework studied and the official documents that guide and regulate Early Childhood Education in the country. One Municipal Early Childhood Education Center did not have a Political Pedagogical Project and was therefore not considered for the research. Three analytical axes were constructed to carry out the analyses. The first of them is entitled “The materiality of the Cultural Heritage of the municipality of São Gonçalo do Amarante/RN in the PPPs”. In this axis, the results show that the Cultural Heritage of the municipality of São Gonçalo do Amarante/RN is materialized in an incipient way in the PPPs, so the Cultural Heritage, understood globally, is vehemently materialized in the other PPPs, except for that of CMEI 11. The second analytical axis entitled “The Cultural Heritage materialized in the propositions of the pedagogical practice present in each PPP” has as its main results the materialization of the Cultural Heritage of a global nature, thus, the Cultural Heritage of the municipality of São Gonçalo do Amarante/RN was not contemplated in the school documents. And the third axis “Scores on the construction of children's cultural identities based on PPP” demonstrates that when considering the social, cultural and local aspects of children in school institutions that offer Early Childhood Education, it is reaffirming the relevance of Cultural Heritage during the teaching-learning process.