Memória e história em livros didáticos de história: o PNLD em perspectiva

Abstract

Although they may be taken as conceptual categories intrinsically linked, History and Memory relate to processes and dimensions of culture with important epistemological distinctions and specificities, theorized in their distinctive and contradictory aspects, primarily since the release of the classic by Pierre Nora (1997). Both of them are important components of the scholar historical knowledge and the two of them have a place in the disciplinary matrix of History, from the process of constructing its basis for disciplinary code, using the expression coined by Raimundo Cuesta Fernandes (1998). However, such distinctions are often blurred in the face of an attempt of epistemological homogenization which can cause important implications for the comprehension of History teaching. The aim of this paper is to present the results of a survey conducted between 2009-2012 - evaluating the totality of works approved by the National Program of Schoolbooks (PNLD - 2011) for the discipline of History and therefore starting from a representative documental corpus concerning what circulates throughout the national territory, under the auspices of the Brazilian State -, seeking to map both the presence and the indifferentiation of those fields in Brazilian schoolbooks.