Parâmetros para produção e avaliação de livro didático de história - aprendizagem histórica e a Lei 10.639/2003

Abstract

The present study aims at the elaboration of critical parameters for the production and evaluation of History textbooks for elementary school which accurately meet the Law 10.639/2003, enlarged with Law 11.645/2008, in the specificity of the obligation of teaching the following subjects to all levels of the Brazilian educational system: African and native-African history, the struggle of black people in Brazil, the Brazilian black culture and the role of black people in the formation of the national society. . In order to reach the objectives planned, we have carried out a study about the parameters proposed for the teaching of History of Africa and African-Brazilian people in accordance with the current Legislation that is desired to be taught in schools. We discuss how this teaching proposal comes from the demands and pressure by social actions, highlighting the black people action which had a project that aimed at including, in the Brazilian education, curriculum proposals that inserted black people as History agent. The study was carried out from a comparative analysis of History didactics collections of books approved by the National Program of Textbooks (PNLD), one approved in the notice of 2003 - year of the issuing of Law - 10.639 and another approved for the triennium 2014 – 2016. The collections chosen are by Alfredo Boulos Junior, History: society and citizenship; by FTD publishing company. For the analysis of the collections we follow the concept of textual materiality approaching the textbooks as in inter-textual complex which create the language used in this material considering aspects and elements of the production process of these works and final result present in texts, imagistic representations, proposed activities, internet links, information boxes, suggestion of books etc. In our analysis, we have noticed that still there is propagation of views about black people that do not corroborate with the combat of racism and the stereotypes present in common sense about black people and about the African continent. In this perspective, we stand that the teaching of African and AfricanBrazilian people history and culture shall foster the creation of a critical/genetic type of historical awareness from a history-based learning which allows the construction of the narrative competence by part of the students, enabling them to give meaning to the past and allowing practical orientation to present and future life.