“Instilling me thelove for history”: pages from a notebook on History of Civilization of the student Maria Thetis Nunes

ABSTRACT

The present article analyzes the notebook History of Civilization of the student Maria Thetis Nunes (1923-2009), that presents notes taken in classes from teacher Arthur Fortes (1881-1944), having been used in the Atheneu Sergipense, in 1939. The manuscript record carried out by the student allows an approximation with the teaching practices of history se experienced at school, thus, enabling especially the understanding of what was taught in the class of History of Civilization at the time and how the historical content was taught considering the approach and the content clippings and the evidence of the methodology used by the teacher. The student Thetis Nunes later became a History teacher at high schools and colleges for over five decades besides being the author of a broad range of works in the areas of History of Sergipe and History of Education. Therefore, by studying the school notebook of a high school student, we built paths of the history of the teaching of history in Brazil, the history of secondary level education (high school level) and we also became more aware of the history of the teaching profession itself, the choices made and memory constructions.

Keywords:
Notebook; Historyoftheteachingofhistory; Historyofsecondarylevel education; Maria Thetis Nunes