Avançar o ensino de História das Américas: dados, práticas e desafios contemporâneos

Abstract

The text addresses the teaching of History in the Americas, highlighting curricular diversity and the challenges faced in educational institutions. The first part emphasizes the importance of historical knowledge about Latin America and the need to transform the current teaching situation through research activities that connect the local and regional reality to other Latin American contexts. The second part analyzes the diversity of the History curriculum in the different Latin American countries, highlighting the need for a more contextualized and inclusive approach. Finally, the third part comparatively assesses historical learning and interest in studying the history of other countries among students from Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Chile. The main conclusions include the interconnection between the struggle for history teaching and the defense of public schools, the need for inclusion of diverse perspectives, criticism of curriculum guidelines that emphasize rivalries, the importance of research to understand and improve teaching, and the interventions in public educational policies to advance the teaching of History of the Americas.