Programa conhecendo Toledo: o ensino de história local na perspectiva da pedagogia histórico-crítica.

Abstract

This master’s thesis seeks to analyze an Educational Program created in 1995 in the Toledo city, located in the Western Region of the Paraná State, initially called “Toledo Sobre Rodas”. The objective of this program was to learn about the city historical aspects and the services developed by the Public Authorities in the Elementary School education. In 1997, this Program was renamed “Conhecendo Toledo”, a nomenclature that remains today. The objective of this study is to understand the role of this program in the local history dissemination and analyze it based on the contributions of Critical Historical Pedagogy, PHC, understood here as essential for the process of building identity, social belonging and training for citizenship, elementary conditions in the school history discipline. We defend the idea that such a program has a central role in the Local History development as it is a significant strategy in the teaching-learning processes that brings students closer to the reality in which they are inserted and favors the historical awareness development. Furthermore, this program allows to problematize and overcome narratives that have historically praised the dominant class achievements. The approach used in this study will be qualitative, analyzing documents relating to the program and studying its relationship with the history teaching and whit education. Here, we take the theoretical perspective formulated by Saviani as a basis for analysis, seeking to carry out a bibliographical study based on the main theorists who support education within this proposal and on more recent research on the subject to situate the program analysis within a consistent field of theoretical-conceptual and methodological analysis.