TEXTBOOK: REFLEXIONS INVOLVING AUTHORSHIP, CONTENT AND THEORY

• Autor(a) principal: Fiori, Neide Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Travessias (Cascavel. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/travessias/article/view/3447
• topic: Livro didático; autoria; Teoria do branqueamento; Democracia racial.

This study deals with the stereotypical image that, historically speaking, has beenassociated with the textbook author. It looks at how this image has come to change, andidentifies the different circumstances that have led to teachers assuming responsibility for thewriting of school textbooks. Furthermore, using the textbook concept proposed by Décio Gatti,it clearly shows textbook writing to be a multifaceted literature, in terms of perspectives ofanalysis, positions that will be related to François Dubet’s thinking. It addresses recent forms inthe writing of school textbooks that embrace new editorial technology and considers the rightsand responsibilities of textbook authors with regard to the use of photographic images, in light of1998’s Law number 9.610. It places emphasis on how important it is that these passivecontributions be considered, according to Boris Kossoy, as historical documents derived frominterdisciplinary sources and, as such, involving various fields of knowledge. It focuses on themilitary movement as an authoritarian force which guided Brazil’s destiny from 1964 to 1985 andwhich influenced the direction education took and the position of the authors. In this context,decree law number 477 of 1969 acted as a kind of restriction of freedom and as thought control,which was reflected in textbooks. In how it affected textbook content, related to racial and ethnic matters in the form of the “race whitening thesis” with its implicit idea of white superiority, andthe Brazilian “racial democracy” thesis, in reference to the historical moment to come.