Os manuais de “História pátria regional” e as representações do ensino de História no Pará no início do século XX (1902-1926)

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze the teaching of History in elementary schools of Pará State, Brazil, in the first decades of the twentieth century, considering the representations produced by authors from Pará and conveyed in Apostilas de História do Pará (1915) by Theodoro Braga, and Noções de História Pátria (1920) by Sílvio Nascimento and Raymundo Proença textbooks, and used in educational institutions of this State. Using documentary and bibliographical research, the regionalization of history teaching in the first decades of the twentieth century was explored, analyzing how the textbooks presented the national history and regional historical processes. The theoretical approach permeates the study of Chervel (1990) about the school subjects of Choppin (2004, 2009) and of Bittencourt (2008) on the production and use of textbooks, promoting a dialogue with the representation concept of Chartier (1990). In addition to these authors, considerations of Bourdieu (1989) are also relevant on the construction of mechanisms of regional identity. With this research, it could be verified that the regionalization of history teaching is not something new and that teaching proposed in the two analyzed textbooks was meant to forge a regional identity for Pará population, at the same time that helped in the construction of Brazilian national identity.