Abstract/Résumé/Resumen
Archival collections are primary sources for research and become didactic resources for educational activities for children, adolescents, and adults. In this sense, the present research aimed to describe educational actions, disseminated in digital media, by National Archives from countries with influential archival theoretical currents and from Brazil. The study is descriptive in nature in order to describe the educational actions promoted by the Brazilian National Archives and countries with influential theoretical currents in France (principle of respect for funds), the United States of America (records management), Canada (archives integrated), and Australia (records continuum). As for the research corpus, it is composed of electronic sites from each of the selected National Archives, from where research data referring to educational actions broadcast on digital diffusion platforms are collected. The research is documental, has a qualitative approach, and makes use of Bardin's content analysis (1979). As a result, it appears that the National Archives of France, the United States of America, and Australia have a specific section on their websites to deal with educational actions with the documentary heritage of their collections. Meanwhile, with regard to the National Archives of Canada and Brazil, a specific section on educational actions was not identified on their websites. However, it is possible to locate items related to educational acts for the dissemination of files. In conclusion, there is greater interaction and collaboration between school-archive in the educational practices and actions promoted by the French and American National Archives, with the development of teacher training programs for the use of historical archives as didactic-pedagogical resources of teaching. It should also be noted that other National Archives are sources of analysis to identify other forms of educational actions that can be developed by other archival institutions, including those that were the object of this research.
