Vestígios judiciais e história local : o acervo do TJMA como recurso didático para o Ensino Médio

Abstract

This thesis investigates the pedagogical potential of the collections held by the Arquivo do Tribunal de Justiça do Maranhão (TJMA) for History teaching in High School, as part of the Research Line Memory and Historical Knowledge. The central research problem lies in the observation that, despite the high historical and pedagogical value of judicial documents, their use in the classroom remains under-explored. In this sense, it seeks to answer how these traces can be didactically transposed for Local History teaching, aiming to promote critical historical learning. Methodologically, the work is anchored in qualitative research, of a bibliographic and documentary nature, based on the assumptions of Micro-history and the indiciary paradigm. The analysis focuses on three thematic axes extracted from judicial processes of the 19th and 20th centuries: the agency of Catarina Mina (slavery and freedom); the labor conflicts of the Ulen Company Case (labor and imperialism); and the political repression of Hilton Gregório (authoritarianism and the Estado Novo). As a result, the Educational Product entitled O Arquivo como Sala de Aula: Fontes judiciais para o ensino de História do Maranhão is presented, a digital sourcebook (e-book) organized into thematic dossiers. The material provides teachers with technical analysis tools and didactic strategies aimed at breaking with the passive reception of content, bringing the student closer to the materiality of the source and the agency of the subjects. It is concluded that the pedagogical mediation of local primary sources is capable of fostering historical consciousness and the right to memory, consolidating the judicial archive as an effective extension of the classroom.