Revolução cubana nos livros didáticos: propostas e limites

Abstract

This present study analyzes the approach of the Cuban Revolution (1959) in textbooks directed to Elementary School II, from the state of Maranhão . It is observed the insertion and interpretation of the subject in the textbooks in the light of the specialized historiography, of the Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais - PCNs (National Curricular Parameters) and of the Programa Nacional de Livros Didáticos - PNLD (National Program of Didactic Books). The objective is to evaluate the content and limits of the proposals of approach of the Cuban Revolution in the materials selected by the PNLDs of 2011 and 2014, adopted in the educational institutions of São Luís of Maranhão. It is based on the assumption that textbooks constitute the main and, sometimes, unique, way of accessing students to the fundamental themes of Latin American History, thus becoming a privileged material for the acquisition of knowledge and the construction of social imaginaries about different subjects.