Pode a história imunizar os alunos? A pandemia de Covid-19 e o ensino de história através das reportagens da BBC News Brasil

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the potencial of the “historical reports” produced by BBC News Brasil as a teaching tool for teaching history. Focusing on the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, especially between 2020 and 2022, the research analyzes how these materials can be used in the classroom to develop student’s historical thinking by confronting this health crisis with other events in the past, such as the Spanish Flu and the history of caccination. It also aims to debate and question the potencial of using periodical materials to (re) think school historical knowledge, in close dialogue with historiography. The theoretical-methodological framework is based on the concept of Historical Thinking, developed by Peter Seixas, and permeates characteristics of Historical Consciousness, elaborated by Rüsen and reinterpred by Schmidt. As a final result, three didactic sequences will be presented that allow the teacher to use these reports to stimulate historical reflection, allowing students to understand history as a process in constant construction and that interacts with contemporany events, in addition to improving their critical-reflective ability to construct arguments relating different temporalities.