A CONSTRUÇÃO DE UM CURRÍCULO: A PROPOSTA DE HISTÓRIA DA AMÉRICA PARA A 1ª SÉRIE DO 2º GRAU (1980-1983)

Abstract

This work investigates contexts, subjects and contents which informed the process of elaboration of the Proposta Curricular de História e Geografia para o 2º Grau at the end of the 1970’s and the beginning of the 1980’s, in the State of São Paulo. This proposal has a singular importance, since it represents the return of the teaching of the History of America to the 2º grau, which chronologically coincides with the period of the Civil-Military Dictatorship in Brazil. Why does the History of America return to the curriculum as a highlighted content? Why does it happen in that moment in History? Who were the responsible historical agents for this formulation? Which are the intents that mobilized these agents to seek this reinsertion? Which ideas did they represent? Which History of America was proposed to the teacher and the school public? What was the impact of this proposal on the didactic production of the time? These are a few questions that this work tries to answer. In order to do that, we used official curricular documents of the State of São Paulo, which include the Coletânea de Documentos de História da América para o 2º grau – 1ª série, 1983, interviews with intellectuals who influenced the field of studies of the History of America or who were part of the elaboration of the curricular proposal, besides textbooks which were produced at the same time and have the same theme. The theoretical and methodological references which support the study are the History of Academic Disciplines, History of the Curriculum and History of Textbooks.