Para além do conteúdo histórico escolar: as ideias dos alunos sobre a escravização africana e o racismo

Abstract

Understanding the importance of knowing the directions of trafficking, where the enslaved populations came from and where
they went and the cultural contributions brought by these peoples (SOUZA, 2009), this work seeks to demonstrate the
experience developed in the eighth year of elementary school, through of the project entitled “The voyages of enslaved Africans
and the crossing of the Atlantic”. The aim was to awaken in the students' consciousness a historical sense capable of
establishing relationships between present, past and future (RÜSEN, 2015a) on the idea of racial superiority. We seek
to propose a humanized, empathic historical education that goes beyond the notion of school content, becoming an orientation
for practical life. Supervised research was carried out on where enslaved Africans departed from, where they landed in
America, the conditions and resistances surrounding enslavement. The project was developed based on the methodology
known as “classroom-workshop” based on the proposal of researcher Isabel Barca (2004)