Ensino de história para os anos iniciais: pesquisa e produção de um recurso educativo sobre datas comemorativas com perspectiva decolonial

Abstract

This article presents the process of designing and developing of an educational resource for the discipline of History in the early years of Elementary School, carried out based on a sample survey with 47 teachers, via a Google Forms questionnaire, within the scope of a Professional Master's program in Education. In seeking to apprehend teaching concepts and practices, this investigation indicated that, from the teachers’ perspective, the teaching of History presents difficulties related to the excess of syllabus contents of the official curricula, the insecurity of working with certain themes, as well as the scarcity of ludic and dynamic didactic materials that respond to the imperatives of the present technological context. In consideration of these data, an e-book was created as an educational resource with didactic sequences on commemorative dates, given their presence in school culture and the prevalence of stereotyped and heroic approaches to agents and historical events. This product is in tune with the assumptions of the epistemological fields of decolonial thought, Didactics of History and Historical Education, which demonstrate the most appropriate strategies, purposes, themes and methodologies for teaching History to children.