Charlie Hebdo: Historical Consciousness on Religious Intolerance of Goiânia Students

Abstract

The present research analyzes the significance of religious intolerance from studies on the attack on Charlie Hebdo Weekly in January 2015 in the city of Paris. The sources investigated were the narratives of students of a School of the Municipal Secretary of Education of “Goiânia”, collected between 2015 and 2017, through research instruments, whose objective was to investigate the contrary and favorable position of the students to the terrorists or to cartoonists. The theoretical contribution of historical education made it possible to carry out interventions for the study of intolerance. After the interventions, we applied the research instrument a second time to check for changes in learning. We have identified little progress in relation to students' positions on religious and non-religious freedom of expression. We made a third intervention, with questions related to the motive of the cartoons being offensive to the Islamic religion and the explanation of what is religious intolerance today. We perceive in these narratives the existence of alterations; some students demonstrated a shift in historical consciousness to a critical and genetic orientation.