A escrita das imagens: interpretações, possibilidade de compreensão e consciência histórica

Abstract

This research aimed to analyze how students interpret historical images and how they use this knowledge in their practical life, inferring from their narratives the levels of evident historical awareness. The research was carried out at the Federal Institute of Pará, Belém campus, with students from the 3rd year of integrated technical courses in mechanics and sanitation. We made use of the quantitative-qualitative research that after a workshop class, which pointed out some relevant methods to be considered in the interpretation of historical images, students were able to make their own interpretations from images chosen by them, elaborating, at the end of this work, narratives that were used as parameters to assess students' historical awareness. It was found that most of the participating students had the traditional level of historical awareness and that this fact is directly related to the incipient historical knowledge that some of the students had. We point out the need to expand the students' levels of historical awareness to critical and genetic types from a more significant teaching of history, related to their practical life and that they participate in the construction of this knowledge through working with historical sources in the classroom. class, being the work with image sources a possible means to achieve this goal.