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THE PLACE OF LOCAL HISTORY IN TEXTBOOKS IN THE EARLY YEARS OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NATIONAL COMMON CURRICULAR BASE AND THE NATIONAL TEXTBOOK PROGRAM

Textbook. Local History. History Teaching. Education.

In the early years of elementary school, teaching local history represents an effective strategy for developing historical thinking, while textbooks are one of the main work materials used in everyday school life. While facilitating the construction of historical identities, local history brings teachers and students closer together, promoting critical and civic awareness. However, in recent years, Brazil has faced political, social and ideological conflicts that have had a direct impact on education. The National Common Curricular Base, approved in 2017, was created in a context of democratic rupture and had its process changed by a new government. As a result, the notices of the National Textbook Program (PNLD) were also adjusted to meet these changes. Thus, curricula and educational programs can value or devalue the teaching of local history, which influences its visibility or marginalization in textbooks distributed in public schools. Recognizing the role of textbooks, as the main teaching resource in Brazilian schools, is essential to understanding their influence on the teaching of Local History. Considering these facts, this ongoing study aims to investigate how the teaching of local history is approached in history textbooks for the initial years of elementary school selected by the PNLD from the years before and after the BNCC. To this end, we analyzed two collections of the History discipline selected by the PNLD from the years 2016 and 2023. Based on this investigation, we intend to understand how the BNCC curricular proposals determine the frequency and manner in which approaches to local history emerge throughout the volumes of the works, as well as to analyze the conceptions of school historical knowledge that emerge from the works in the pre- and post-BNCC periods and how they are articulated with the approach and content of local history.