Ancient History in Brazil: trajectory and challenges
Ancient History, Teaching, Textbooks, Uses of the past.
In recent years, Ancient History has been at the heart of a major debate in Brazilian education. The creation of BNCC evidenced what was questioned for a long time, what is the need or importance of teaching Ancient History in our country? In this way, this dissertation proposes a theoretical delimitation of Ancient History itself as a sub-area of School History. Based on the analysis of time as a category and its relationship with human perceptions, we seek to define how the so-called Universal History is organized, understanding that Antiquity is an arbitrarily constructed unit and that in various spaces, including Brazil, it was and has been instrumentalized by strata of society that aim to legitimize their actions in the present. Knowing that such purposes always pervade education, we present how the teaching of antiques was mobilized over the years in Brazilian schools and we carried out a check on a sample of textbooks approved in the last PNLD to try to reveal what values have been disseminated in these important cultural vehicles. Faced with such results, we propose some contributions for teaching Ancient History capable of responding to the concerns and challenges of contemporary education.