Processes of metacognition and historical signification: three videos produced by high school first year students from UFSC’s Colégio de Aplicação

Abstract

This paper presents results of the application of a Project of Teaching and Research developed in 2012’s first semester in Supervised Internship II in Santa Catarina State University’s undergraduate program in History, and applied in the second semester during Supervised Internship III in a classroom of high school first year students, at Federal University of Santa Catarina’s Colégio de Aplicação. In this way, three vídeos are analyzed – which are entitled “É tempo de recordar”, “Existem mais Joanas d’Arcs e Marias Bonitas do que sonha nossa vã filosofia” and “MMA em História” –, produced by ten students, which are understood as processes of metacognition, because they incite the students to think about how they learned, and of historical signification from the production of a video, that includes from the iconographic and sound research to the montage, thus building an audiovisual speech marked by historical sense. Therefore, with the audiovisual production, the exercise of historical investigation was stimulated in the students by the problematization of diverse evidences collected in different documents: visuals, sonorous and of literate culture, which at the end of the process, resulted in some questionings about common historiographical discourses.