O ensino de História entre memórias: a ditadura civil-militar no Brasil e as memórias acerca de Emmanuel Bezerra dos Santos

Abstract

This work discusses the theme of the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship (1964-1985) in History Education, taking as reference the memories constructed about the political activist from Rio Grande do Norte, Emmanuel Bezerra dos Santos (1947-1973). The study aimed to create teaching-learning situations that enable dialogue between historiographical production and the memories constructed in the Rio Grande do Norte municipality of Caiçara do Norte about Emmanuel Bezerra dos Santos. It is an exploratory and descriptive research, based on bibliographic data, printed and audiovisual documentary sources. It analyzes the historiography about the Civil-Military Dictatorship present in History Education from the production of Profhistória dissertations published between 2018 and 2021, whose contents deal with the relationship between the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship and Human Rights. Furthermore, the study reflects on how the theme of the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship has been presented in the History textbooks of the National Program of Textbooks and Didactic Material (PNLD) made available to students and teachers of basic education. To analyze this material, we take as reference the proposals made by Jörn Rüsen (2010), including the concept of multiperspectivity that he addresses. The need to include local history content in these reflections is emphasized, referring to various events promoted by human rights activists, social movements and political parties in Rio Grande do Norte in 2023, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Emmanuel Bezerra dos Santos. The study was materialized in a History teaching proposal based on a didactic sequence, whose theme of the Civil-Military Dictatorship was addressed, considering a target audience of 9th grade students from Elementary School II at the State School Godofredo Cacho, located in the municipality of Caiçara do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte.