This paper refers to the contributions of the curricular studies for the teaching of history, considering that researches on this teaching, when passed by curricular questions, need approaches with educational theories and boardings. In this article I present a reflection over the academic disputes for the definition of contents of education, over the specificity of historical discipline in school and over the possibility of modifying the formation of history teachers, aiming at boardings about culture and education designed by curricular studies. The text was constructed as an allegory, parting from the picture of the painter Terniers, the Younger, entitled The archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his painting gallery at Brussels, belonging to the museum of Prado, in Madrid.
Curriculum; Teaching of History; Historical Knowledge; Teacher Formation; Educational Research and Practices
