THE SERTOES AS AN ABSENT TERM IN HISTORY EDUCATION AND TEACHER TRAINING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF CRITICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL READING IN CONTEMPORARY TIMES
Outback; History Education; PPGHC; Oral History; Contemporary History.
This study aims to investigate the absence of the term "sertao" in History education, addressing issues related both to the teaching of the discipline and to the historiography of the Sertoes. The research analyzes documents such as the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) and didactic collections, establishing a dialogue with the academic production of the Graduate Program in History at CERES (PPGHC), the only master's program in Brazil with a concentration in the History of the Sertoes. Additionally, it explores the relationship between the research objects, teaching practices, and oral history, with a focus on the role of the program's graduates. The study adopts the perspective of Social History and uses the content analysis methodology proposed by Laurence Bardin (1977). To substantiate the concept of "sertoes," the research draws on the works of Janaina Amado, Erivaldo Fagundes Neves, and Durval Muniz de Albuquerque Junior, while for History education, the contributions of Circe Bittencourt, Ana Maria Monteiro, Elza Nadai, among others, are considered. The hypotheses suggest that the absence of the term as a relevant category in History education highlights the need to recognize its thematic importance, despite its apparent marginalization.