O jogo como suporte pedagógico e a utilização de documentos no ensino da história

Abstract

Nowadays thinking about teaching History, like in another areas of knowledge, is like thinking about a new educational practices. The introduction of games in History classes gives some pedagogical opportunities, like a better knowledge construction and also allows some new cultural practices. In the Human area, mainly in History, the purpose is develop critical and reflexive habilities about the past by understanding the economic, political and social relations with the present. To get better knowledge about it, it is necessary thinking about new ways of pedagogical practices with recreational systems, especially games. The purpose of this text is introduce an investigative board game that was developed as a final requirement in the Post Graduate Program In History at UCS. The File 7.0, which was produced as an educational support will allow a deep and recreational study, with read and interpretation of fictional documents that make up the game for the period of a civil-military dictatorship in the 1970s. The purpose of this support is denunciate the aggression and attack to the human rights, in which the student will have to discover some cases like disappearances, occultations of dead bodies and State repression actions. This proposition have a Teacher’s Guide to support the aplication of the File 7.0 in the classes, including read suggestions and some complementary activities that was created after some analysis of the applicability of this game to a high school students. The game provides an opportunity to create a social interaction and some "emotion" that the game could allows, the investigation, the oportunity to looking for some information, interpretation and autonomy, to get a great knowledge.