New History

We give ample absolution to youth. History as is taught to them is really odiosa' '. Murilo Mendes 1.1? TRAJECTORY AND TRENDS the education of History as it disciplines was created in Brazil in century XIX, together with the creation of the Dom College Peter II, in Rio De Janeiro, that in its first regulation, of 1838, determined the insertion of the historical studies in the resume, to leave of the sixth series. For many and many years, the history education was centered in the conception, positivista and reproduced a said History ' ' eurocntrica' ' supported for the belief of that the historical development is resultant of one ' ' ordem' ' one ' ' progresso' ' natural, culminating in a succession of facts explained for a logical relation of causes and effect, whose actors are always the great names of History politics. This model, when dismissing the dialtico and critical aspect of this disciplines, served as instrument of ideological reproduction of the Military State. From the decade of 80, it was if opening the field of the social explanation for a vision of historical totality.

Under influence of the Marxism, New History and the English Historiografia, some didactic books if had renewed and others had appeared, incorporating academic advances that had contributed for bigger criticidade in the historical boarding. Already in the Eighties, mainly in the public Universities, for way of the Selective Examinations of the Vestibular contests, it was transferred to demand it of being educated the bigger critical capacity in the interpretation of History, thus diminishing, each time more, the necessity of memorization of the traditional names, dates and isolated facts of its partner-economic contexts. This factor contributed very and in the disruption with the mentally ill education of History in classroom. Of this form, many professors when incorporating a critical vision of its disciplines, had left to be mere reproducers to assume the role of researchers of the historical knowledge.