Usos do biográfico no ensino de História: as identidades, trajetórias e memórias de Almerinda Farias Gama

Abstract

The dissertation addresses the possibilities of using biographies and autobiographies in History teaching. In this work, I used the biography of Almerinda Farias Gama, a black woman from the Northeast, through the analysis of an interview she gave to historians Angela de Castro Gomes and Eduardo Stotz, and a film in which she narrates her trajectory, produced by Joel Zito Araújo. The object of study of the dissertation arose during research into my pedagogical practice to develop teaching material on the Vargas Era and the right to vote for women. When I came across an image of Almerinda Farias Gama voting in the 1933 Constituent Assembly, I decided to research her role as the only woman in this election. The trajectory of Almerinda Farias Gama was used in this work to reflect on and develop a pedagogical didactic resource on the use of the biographical in the teaching of History and seeking a path to the applicability of law 10.639 of 2003, which made the teaching of History of Africa and Afro-Brazilians in primary schools. Almerinda Farias Gama's reports presented in this work enabled discussions in the classroom about History school materials and the gender, race and class inequalities that permeated this character's life and that are perpetuated in contemporary Brazilian society.