História local e ensino de História: as memórias da paisagem do bairro Carananduba, na ilha de Mosqueiro, Belém-PA

Abstract

This dissertation has as purpose to promote history teaching through the mermories of Carananduba neighborhood in Mosqueiro island, Belém – Pará, offering a significant learning to the eighth and nineth period students on elementary level from “Prof. Abelardo Leão Conduru School”, to support a construction and perception of seeing, feeling and think about the neighborhood, taking as a theorical assumption the urban history, understanding the importance of building and valuing local history, this last one is used as a necessary connection to understand a broader context in wich the neighborhood is inserted. Various activities were proposed to execute this work in and out of school, such as applying questionnaire to students using different sources and interviewing the local people. For the interviews the methodology of oral history was used, it demanded preparation and guidance, for instace an elaboration of an interviewing script. . The proposed activities search to encourage students to assume a historian attitude in relation to the reading and analysis of sources and promotion of the recognition of the historicity of themselves, others and the place where they live. An online questionnarie was also applied to teachers that teach to elementary school in order to understand how they establish activities focusing on local history. All the material obtained was analyzed based on the technique of thematic categorical content analysis. From this, it was possible to notice what knowledge the students had about the history of the place where they live and, in addition, to visualize the positive aspects and the limitations of teaching practices aimed at the local studies. The propositional dimension of this dissertation constitutes a website to teachers and it is expected that it will serve as a guide for their teaching practices focused on the study of local history, allied to this, that it constitutes a space for sharing of knowledge in constant growth and dissemination of other teaching experiences of the genre.