Cinema na education: filmes and the teaching of history in the municipal basic education of Aracaju

Abstract

This text deals with the forms of appropriation, on the part of the teachers, of the suggestions of films proposed in the history textbooks, used between the 6th and 9th years of elementary school, in the teaching practices in the public school system of the municipality of Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil. It is the result of applied research, of the case study type, involving 20 schools in the municipal education network as "locus" recognizing the existence of multiple realities within the same education network. With a qualitative approach, the gathering of information took place through the application of a mixed questionnaire with 26 teachers and interviews aiming to deepen the open questions, with 10 teachers. The results show that in the network, nine different collections are used for the history discipline, in which 92% of the teachers claim to know the suggestions of the books, but only 30% make a significant use in the classroom, in such a way. so that they cannot cover a more effective use of film devices in the classroom. Thus, it is concluded that it is necessary to pay more attention to the possibilities that cinematographic productions can offer for education, affirming its importance for the basic intellectual and socio-cultural formation of the student subjects.