O ensino de história da América e o conceito de populismo: entre o currículo e as obras didáticas

Abstract

This paper aims to understand the presence and approaches assumed in the teaching of American History in Brazilian basic education from the analysis of the use of the controversial concept of populism in the skillslisted by the National Common Curriculum Base (BNCC) for High School. The concepts of curriculum (Silva, 1999) and disciplinary code (Fernández, 2009) were used in the analysis of the space allocated to the History of America in the retrospective of school History teaching programs in Brazil.The notion that didactic works are important documents of History Teaching subsidizes the analysis of the representation of populism in Latin America in the works of the Modern Publisher of Applied Human and Social Sciences,approved by the National Textbook Plan in 2021 for High School. It is interesting to know if the use of the concept "populism" is still linked to the rhetoric of the manipulation of the masses, to the pejorative characterization of leaders and to a stereotyped and limited view of Latin America in the midtwentieth century, or even if it reflects contemporary appropriations of the word.The propositional dimension is presented in the format of a digital book, idealized as a Teacher Support Booklet, in which the focus consists of the problematization of the concept of populism adopted by the BNCC and appropriated by textbooks, the presentation of counterpoints to such narratives and the suggestion of sources for critical work with students on the History of Latin America.