Livro didático de história como lugar de memória: uma proposta de ensino da diversidade sexual

Abstract

The purpose of this research was the sexual diversity's representation in History's textbooks, in the elementary brazilian school (6th to 9th grade). As our theoretical support, we had the contribution of the following authors: Candau (2016), Choppin (2004), Jesus (2012), Nora (1981), Pollak (1989) and Rossi (2010). We aimed to comprehend the elaboration's process of the History's textbook related to the elementary school as well as to distinguish, in the collections analyzed, the contents that, somehow, focused on sexual diversity; to debate about the process of the memory's delimitation occurred in the analysed textbooks and to put into evidence the people's experience of sexual diversity in certain ages of the Occidental history. The metodology was developed through the essential functions of a textbook, propposed by Choppin. We perceived that, silencings, disputes and memory's delimitations are regular in the elaboration of a textbook collection, mainly when the discussion refers to sexual diversity, maintaining in the collective memory of the Occidental society a heteronormative standard as the only and natural way , subalternizing, therefore, the different sexual behaviors. The research culminated on the elaboration of a didactic material for the theachers that contributes to the teaching of sexual diversity in the History's classes, considering a specific demand of a professional master degree , in which is required to produce a didactic material