Use of images in history education: reflections on the use and interpretation of images of indigenous peoples

Abstract

This article brings to discussion the use of images in the teaching of history in general and specific, reflecting at the same time as to how the study of the images has been worked by teachers and teachers at school and what the enriching possibilities to be known and discussed with the students, making an interrelationship with the discipline of history. Then we bring some northeastern Indian images, relating how it would be done the study and interpretation of these images for the seizure and learning (the) students (as), so that they are critical and reflective reading of images, especially when It refers to indigenous peoples, which now come in the most distorted and camouflaged by the media. In this, one must consider that study and interpret the analysis of the images is of great importance in building a conscious and critical subject in what is being offered and shown to this student.