Reflections on history teaching: discussion of some propositions from Jacques Le Goff

Abstract

This article considers the importance of the conceptions of the New History repercussion on the history teaching, in Brazil, starting from the decade of 70, understanding that, for this, the need for the analysis of the effects of that repercussion is imposed, in different aspects and teaching levels. In that sense, it was looked for to enunciate some fundamental subjects for that analysis, raised from propositions of Jacques Le Goff, not by chance, one of the most expressive representatives of the New History, very well-known by the Brazilian specialists. For so much, the following procedure was adopted: presentation of each of the propositions, extracted of the work History and Memory, and discussion of the same ones, relating them with the teaching considered as knowledge production. The central subject, resulting from the group of the discussed prepositions, is the verification of the need of discussing teaching, as much as the research, to the light of the theoretical-methodological presuppositions and of the epistemology of the history. In the end, not as a conclusion but as a provocation to the debate, the general lines of the different school stages of the history teaching are presented, almost as established maxims, according to the current Brazilian legislation.