Germinal : Marxismo e Educação em Debate (Dec 2013)
HISTORICAL CRITICAL PEDAGOGY: THEORY WITHOUT PRACTICE? - WHERE IS THE DISCRETION OF TRUTH?
Abstract
This paper aims to show a practice of historical-critical pedagogy in the educational process of teaching and learning. The issue of this directive teaching and was thus formulated: Can the historicalcritical pedagogy constitute theoretically and practically in a teaching in undergraduate and the work of teachers in public schools and municipal governments? The theoretical and methodological work is the historical and dialectical materialism. The report deals with the historical-critical pedagogy in its practical application in the classroom. The methodology in undergraduate courses consists of the presentation of the fundamentals of historical and dialectical materialism and historical-cultural theory, and an explanation of the steps of the historical-critical pedagogy and accompanying didactic. In advising the municipal education follows the same theoretical framework plus the planning units of content that will be effectively applied in the classroom. The results of theoretical and practical work with undergraduates and teachers of state schools and the teachers of the prefectures show positive results for students' learning, but also highlight the need for further theoretical and the struggle for the right conditions to effective implementation of the historical-critical pedagogy and its teaching in schools.
