"O livro didático ideal" em questão: estudo da teoria da formação histórica de Jörn Rüsen em livros didáticos de história (PNLD-2008)

Abstract

The historical consciousness is an intellectual ability that allows men to guide themselves through time. The formation of historical consciousness can be stimulated through movies, books, music, TV programs, especially at school through history books. The German theorist Jörn Rüsen shows in his work O livro didático ideal criteria for the development of narrative competence and, therefore, historical consciousness. Such text is talked about in this final paper. The main point here is to identify what is far and near from the criteria of historical formation that Rüsen presents and the elements in the collection of the school book distributed by the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático PNLD-2008. The justification for such research lies on the recent appropriation of Rüsen s work in Brazil. The theoretical reference used is focused on Jörn Rüsen s theory about historical formation, especially his thoughts over the school book. The methodology employed is based on categories of narrative competence perception, interpretation and orientation developed by the same author. The comparison performed allowed us to gather evidence on how the source of our study stimulates historical formation.