Dark times among us: proposal for a class and activity for the teaching of history through dystopia

Abstract

The first half of the twentieth century is characterized by being one of the most dark periods of history, for the reason for the 1929 Crash, the First and Second Large War configurate great decadences. Given the great suffering, one of the consequences was the rise of the literary genre of dystopia, which is about to inculcate in the future human pessimism. This article aims to demonstrate, through a bibliographic review, as the works of this literature can serve for the teaching of history through the theme related to the sufferings of the first half of the twentieth century, in the proposition of a thematic class for the New High School and of a didactic activity using two literary works. In this matter, it will be missed on the social imaginary of the nineteenth century so that the great rupture of European experiences between the eighthocentists and the ninetry can be understood. The information of this article, which were made possible through the incentives of the Pibid, may serve for evaluative classes and activities. It will be observed as the dystopia and the imaginative incorporation of this in the classroom can collaborate for history learning and the practice of criticism.