O cinema como ferramenta para o ensino de história e o debate sobre os povos indígenas

Abstract

This work deals with Movie theater as a tool for teaching history and the debate about indigenous peoples, and its main objective is to analyze the factors that make film an important pedagogical tool both for teaching History and for studying the culture of indigenous peoples. Indian people.Movie theater is a resource that allows us to know, discover, understand, move, and educate, and given these possibilities, film in the classroom can certainly be a pedagogical resource of great importance, as it allows teachers a break from the routine of classes. expository focused only on textbooks, thus contributing to the teaching, and learning process and the contextualization of what is taught at school. The research was developed in a bibliographic and field format, and data collection was carried out through the participation of 10 (ten) students studying the 6th year of Escola Communitarian Betel, located in the João Paulo neighborhood, São Luís – MA. The results indicate that the film is an essential teaching component to complement the teaching of History in a playful and dynamic way, as the student can have contact with different cultures, understand their historiographical formation and the struggles undertaken by various social groups throughout of centuries.