As últimas testemunhas de Svetlana Aleksiévitch: a Segunda Grande Guerra e a mobilização de narrativas biográficas no ensino-aprendizagem de História na Educação Básica, no contexto da pandemia de COVID-19

Abstract

This dissertation presents a methodological proposal for history teaching, reflecting on the possibilities of using student narratives as a way of potentializing historical knowledge, creating a context of possibilities for self-awareness of their roles as agents and producers of historical experiences. The description of events experienced by survivors of World War II present in the book The Last Witnesses, by the Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksiévitch, are understood as monads, as claimed by Walter Benjamin. From them, we hope that students can compose their own narratives, against the backdrop of, and as a comparison, the recent moment of routinization of death experienced during the coronavirus pandemic. The proposal is that the narrator subject, at the moment he conceives the act of self-narrating, becomes a subject who perceives and contemplates the other and himself, thus being able, from the tensions between the individual and the collective, to build a scenario in which present and past become significant and allow us to point to another possible world. Through this connection between history and literature, issues related to memory, experience, narratives and curriculum were discussed. At the end, a didactic sequence plan is presented based on the discussions made throughout the work and a selection of the monads collected by Aleksiévithch are offered, as an appendix.