O ensino de história local e concepções de identidade histórica de professores: estudo de caso em uma escola de Campo Largo-PR

Abstract

This dissertation has as objective to study the implications of the historical identity conceptions of teachers of the early years of elementary school, in a municipal school in Campo Largo, Paraná, in their teaching practices of local history. Considering the problem to be investigated, the following inquiry was elaborated: is there relation among the historical identity conceptions of the teachers (3rd year of elementary school in Municipal School Anchieta) and the way as they teach local history? In the perspective of answering to this inquiry, the following objectives were established. General objective: to investigate the historical identity conceptions presents in the teaching practices of local history of the teachers of the 3rd year of elementary school, in the Municipal School Anchieta, in Campo Largo, Paraná. Specific objectives: to develop a theoretical study about the teaching of local history and historical identity; to know the bases of the teaching of local history in relation to the State and Municipal General Offices of Education; and to investigate in the teaching practices of local history of these teachers the historical identity conceptions. To develop the work, the qualitative research was used, having as research approach the case study, with the objective of observing the school atmosphere in its totality and complexity, because it is a place where people from a great social diversity meet eachother. In relation to the methodology, the methodological structuralism was adopted, which puts in context and studies the structure processes along the time, examining the causal interactions of people, groups, classes, and their social conditions, faiths and structure intentions. In a complementary way, the methodology of the oral history is also present in this work, due to the fundamental paper of the narratives, properly induced and stimulated by the teachers, for the purposes of this research, with the wealth of their versions and interpretations on the teaching of local history. In relation to the research question initially proposal, which made possible the whole investigation process in order to answer this inquiry, now we can evaluate that there is relation among the historical identity conceptions of the teachers of the 3rd year of elementary school of Municipal School Anchieta and the way as they teach local history, prevailing however a traditional vision, because the teachers’ narratives are also very close of the traditions, in other words, of the history’s topics stablished in classroom, studied in way to preserve the current life manners, in which the identity happens by the statement of certain cultural patterns of self-comprehension.