Na roda da história, memórias e saberes: os professores de história em São João del-Rei, um estudo de caso

Abstract

The great majority of the employed teachers in public school in the historical city of São João del Rei was graduated in philosophy. This issue was the turning point for discussion about how they build up their knowledge. Based on Maurice Tardif, for whom those multiple knowledge come from different sources, and applying pre-structured interviews I could consider the knowledge and the practice of six teachers who told their stories, the places they came from as well as their background and experience. They also expressed how they related to the memory and the remains of a city that is almost three centuries old. The interviewees started with their memories and the analysis of the material extracted from textbooks and its development in the teaching of History. In the teachers’ memories the values that are given to their elementary and academic graduation are present in the build up knowledge and also in their teaching. The questions about objectivity/subjectivity, the use of sources/documents, the relation between past/present, the historical production, the historian métier and their relation to the History that is taught from the consideration of Bloch, Thompson, Schaff, Jenkins and Rüsen were the references related to the historical knowledge and the way the concept and practice that are present in the teaching of those History educators.