A cidade e o ensino de história: patrimônio, museu e história local

Abstract

This dissertation presents the theme using the historical heritage of the city of Rio de Janeiro, its museums and places of memory, as a powerful strategy for teaching history. The reflections on this strategy incorporate the definition of history teaching objectives in basic education, which should go beyond the repassing of knowledge produced by historiography to build meaningful knowledge able to serve as reference and guidance in the present time. In this sense, this research addresses the challenges of teaching history in the contemporary order to understand the present time characteristics and the relationships that are established in the learning process, where the direct contact of the student with the vestiges of the past is seen as able to engage them affectively, and through this contact with materialized history build understanding of its own historicity. As part of this work are suggestions for activities involving the use of heritage education for teaching history.