Do Absolutismo, em direção as Américas: diferentes imagens da modernidade no ensino básico

Abstract

It is necessary for History teachers to master the use of different tools for the teaching-learning process, such as image documents, which are so present in the daily lives of current school audiences. This article, created during a teaching internship with a basic education class, aims to analyze History teaching-learning experiences, based on the iconographic analysis method proposed by Erwin Panofsky. During a three-month school term, students were asked to observe and characterize different paintings from the modern period, based on an analysis guide that considered the three levels of iconology comprehension. Thus, image reading activities were developed in five stages, and the students' responses are discussed throughout the article. By the end of the research, the importance of the applied methodology became clear, as it not only provided students with new historical knowledge in a way distinct from what they were accustomed to, but also enabled the teacher to work with representations of the past that facilitate students' engagement with the studied periodization.