Turismo, história oral e velhice: o contexto do patrimônio cultural rural paulista (São Paulo, Brasil)

This article aims to reflect on the contribution of oral history in studies on equity shares and equity in education paulistas historic farms. Problematic issues here are part of a recently completed research, where the heritage is explored as an educational tourist space within a vision of non-formal education in the rural setting, facing the elderly public, educational backgrounds and different social classes. This process was carried out from a qualitative methodology (Oral History) with emphasis on two techniques: the open interview and the thematic statement. Research on the Sao Paulo countryside cultural heritage becomes a paper on the use of cultural property as a source of recreation and tourism, allowing an exercise in awareness of the value of rural areas, by analyzing the subjects' representations and their roles, the rural, and decoding of the existing values in that space imagery.