Todo nome de lugar tem um por quê e para quê?

uma experiência pedagógica sobre investigação de topônimos

Abstract

This article seeks to describe a junior scientific initiation project that was developed throughout the 2023 academic year, with three 3rd year high school students from the campus [omitido para avaliação], at [omitido para avaliação], in the city of [omitido para avaliação]. The objective of the project was to carry out a survey of the toponyms of public places in the neighborhood where the school is located, checking whether there was any toponymic pattern. In its geographical and pedagogical dimension, the project aimed to stimulate a deeper and more critical knowledge about the city's spaces, drawing attention to the symbolism and stories of the places we often visit, but at the same time ignore. And in its methodological dimension, the project was intended to stimulate the development of the ability to organize, categorize, classify and present data. The investigative-pedagogical process was divided into two phases: one theoretical-preparatory and the other practical, where data was collected, categorized, organized and systematized. It was possible to conclude that the toponymic structure of the [omitido para avaliação] neighborhood is eminently militaristic, elitist, patriarchal and Catholic, which nevertheless coincides and is consistent with Brazilian history.