A cultura histórica iluminista: entre o projeto político e o livro didático

• Autor(a) principal: Miranda, Paulo André Batista
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/5957
• topic: Iluminismo; Livro Didático; Cultura Histórica e Ensino de História; Enlightenment; Textbook; Historical Culture and History teaching; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::HISTORIA

This work has as its object of analysis high school History textbooks and the treatment their authors give to the Enlightenment. Assuming that the systematization and dissemination of scientific knowledge in the Modern age were carried on including through the organization of teaching materials designed to the education systems that began to be assembled at the time, we consider the textbook as a cultural object of the Enlightenment. In its turn, the contemporary historiography has revisited the theme of the Enlightenment in Modernity, from an approach that goes beyond the association established between Enlightenment philosophy and the Age of Reason as a French phenomenon. Our analysis aims to understand how the Enlightenment is addressed in Brazilian current textbooks, the predominant theoretical perspectives and how the central concepts of that philosophy are treated. The analysis of textbooks is justified by the fact that in our culture they constitute an important tool for conveying the historical knowledge, other than promoting teacher and student training on the subject. Furthermore, the ideas and proposals of the Enlightenment modern thinkers are still present from our point of view in basic elements of contemporary historical culture and politics.