Working on the “difference” issue in the classroom: students perceptions about the nazis conceptions in the xxth and xxist centuries

Abstract

Explains the authors (PIBID trainees) experience inside the classroom, that happened in the second half of 2012, at the Escola de Educação Básica Padre Anchieta, Florianópolis. There were three classes, which were prepared as "workshops", with 23 high school students between 15 and 20 years. The topic, "the interwar period and the rise of totalitarian regime" was established after the teacher's chronogram, but the focus on "Nazism" was defined after observing the class and researching what could be more relevant to the students. The objective was to operate with their historical thinking, both for discussing the inefficiency and to suppress the "good/bad" or "punisher/victim" Manichaeism, and to point out the continuity of certain types of thinking from that period nowadays, looking forward to cut off or transform those paradigms. The project tried to make the students more critical about the society they live in, and to orientate them in terms of future actions.