Cidade, ensino e memórias públicas em Cascavel - PR

Abstract

This work deals with the teaching of Local History - in the city of Cascavel in and its relation to the memory. Above all, we investigate the processes by which public memories of this region and education are interrelated, since the school environment becomes a space for the dissemination of knowledge about the past. Parallel to this, we point out the existence of a set of knowledge about the local past that gained centrality and that are instituted as hegemonic in terms of Local History. This version of the past set in a power discourse, which ultimately aims at the establishment of a local identity, it is a historical plot backed by a homogeneous representation of the past, mythical and harmonious city. In this sense, we aim to understand the impact of such speeches in history teaching, questioning its use and its redefinition of teachers. This research was grounded in the methodology of oral history, and a group of teachers of Years Start and End of elementary school, respondents. On the other hand, we can not fail to mention that other sources also composed the documentary body of work. Due to the need for analysis of the works and fonts used as research material for teachers, the memoirs literature, the press and the very city of memory locations were also selected to the reflections developed during the research.