“O professor de história como um narrador escolar” ou “os múltiplos usos da oralidade na (re)invenção das narrativas históricas escolares”

Abstract

This research we analyzed the analyzed the chosen methodological strategies in the school historical narrative appropriations by the history teachers’ pedagogical practices. The investigation field covered from the fifth to the eighth grade of primary school in the above mentioned sector. We have elected five (5) teachers as our subjects, all of the graduated in history. To collect the data we worked with interviews (at the beginning, during the classes observations and at the end) and class observations, both of them recorded in audio tapes and converted to protocols, which are our documental corpus. Concerning the methodological strategies adopted by the teachers, we have found out the multiple uses of orality as a privileged way for the appropriations. The historical knowledge oralization turned out to be a intrinsic element to the teaching profession culture, not being possible inexorably associate it with a innovative or conservative perspective itself. The richness and diversity of the phenomena made it possible to perceive the complexity that is peculiar to the history teaching practiced in the classroom.

Keywords: History teaching. School historical narrative. Uses of orality.