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As Crônicas Coloniais no Ensino de História da América

2011, História & Ensino (UEL)

This article discusses the limits and possibilities in the use of colonial chronicles as teaching materials for teaching American history in elementary education. This is especially chronic in Spanish, written in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, on nature, indigenous people and the process of conquest and colonization of America. With the objective to contribute in school education for critical citizenship, pedagogical guidelines outlined in this article are based on the study of social representations, the conditions of discourse production of PCNs and proposals for working with themes and historical documents in room class.