Na cara do gol: usos e potencialidades pedagógicas da História do Futebol para o Ensino de História

Abstract

In this essay, we reflect on the challenges faced to the teaching of History, and from these, we analyze how the History of Football offers us uses and educational potential for bringing students of curricular contents and of fundamental concepts for the development of their historical awareness during the lessons of History. For both, we carried out a discussion on the theories of curriculum and the difficulties faced by the participating agents of the lessons of history, both the teachers and the students. Besides understanding the History of Football as an area of historical studies to be investigated and thought pedagogically, associating it to the Local History, we revisit critically pedagogical practices prior to, in the light of the theoretical reflections, present a pedagogical activity. This activity was put into practice with students from the second year of secondary education in a private school located in Bangu, neighborhood in the West Zone of the city of Rio de Janeiro, using as a basis the oldest local football team, the Bangu Athletic Club.