História local/regional do Maranhão Império - desafios e possibilidades a partir dos livros didáticos de História (PNLD 2020)

Abstract

The History textbook is an important teaching and learning tool, which carries different historical and historiographical influences. Traditional political history, based on nineteenth-century historiographical culture, constructed a Brazilian national history that, despite the changes, still prioritizes the southern and southeastern regions of Brazil in its didactic version. Valuing local and regional history allows us to understand historically silenced processes and characters. Therefore, the textbook can be used as a means of disseminating regional/local history in Brazilian classrooms. Taking this into consideration, we sought to analyze the content of Maranhão Império present in the 11 didactic collections of the History discipline approved by the National Textbook Program (PNLD, 2020), with the aim of identifying the role of regional/local history in History teaching. We opted for a qualitative and bibliographic research method, in order to understand the influence of authors and publishers on the dynamics of textbook production and understand how local history is being approached in this topic.