O ensino da história na perspectiva dos alunos e dos professores: um enfoque baseado nos PCNs de ensino fundamental

Abstract

This essay presents the results of a research which had as a main goal to investigate if the way that the subject of history has been taught is according to the National Curricular Parameters (PCNs) that prescribe as skills and competences to be developed during the secondary school. Furthermore, the action-research method guided the present work, realized in a school called “Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Santa Terezinha”, in the city of Constantina, Rio Grande do Sul. Firstly, the school, the classes and the teachers were contextualized, by means of analysis of the Internal Regulation, as well as an in loco observation. Secondly, a questionnaire was applied to the belonging students who were part of the two classes from the 8th grade of the reported school, apart from a guide of questions to their respective teachers. The collected data were inspected based in the discussion accomplished in the theoretical substantiation, in consonance with the PCNs of History to the secondary school. Moreover, it was told that, at least according to the researched people, the subject of History has not obtained, in a satisfactory way, the competences and skills that the PCNs believe to be the best way to teach the students at this level, giving evidence to the necessity of having a change in the course of study and also in the methodology adopted by the school to reverse the verified research.