Representação de agentes históricos nos livros de Arthur Reis (2001) e Manuel Callado (1999)

Abstract

This article discusses how some historical agents are represented in books of History of the Amazon when referring to indigenous and Portuguese people. It has as objective to analyze the curricular knowledge that guide the Teaching of History at the time aimed at High School, as well as knowing what challenges emerge from this context for teaching local and regional history, considering characters and/or historical agents valued and not valued in the books by Arthur Reis (2001) originally published in 1965 and Manuel Callado (1999). The challenges of teaching Regional and Local History are highlighted, mainly in the current Brazilian educational context imbued with a neoliberal agenda. THE methodology walks through bibliographic esearch: in the two aforementioned books (oursources) and in curriculum theorists in the field of History Teaching. Our results point fundamental differences regarding the treatment given to these agents, that is, each context history demanded an effort to print, from a conjunctural perspective, the curricular contents that should be teachable in history books, as official curricula are not neutral bring in their core intentions, which mean exclusion, displacement, invisibilities of some themes or characters to value others. However, account was taken of the historical and intellectual moments of each author.