O ensino de história e a história local: experiências de pesquisas desenvolvidas por alunos do ensino médio na cidade de viçosa (MG)

Abstract

This article aims to present the local history rescue experience developed with the second year high school students from the UFV's High School (COLUNI). Intending to provide students an interaction between the subject studied during the year and the reality around them, we developed a work in which they researched the immigrant groups, the syndicates, the political parties and the social movements in the city. The works performed by them resulted in pictures, reports, graphics, tables, boards and films. This way, History teaching became something more interesting and mostly significant, once they could better comprehend the community that surrounds them, besides being motivated as active history characters and as historian knowledge producers.