Event discusses the role of the History teacher during the pandemic

What can teaching History contribute to society in times of the Covid-19 pandemic? Professors from the Spaces, Powers and Social Practices research group, linked to CNPq, and the teaching staff of the Professional Postgraduate Program in History Teaching (PROFHistória) and the Department of History at UFRN, set out to evaluate this issue. To this end, they are holding the event Teaching History in Times of Pandemic online. Registration can be made on Sigaa and meetings take place via the Google Hangout platform.
Seven live lectures will be held, two per week, at 7pm. The lectures have specific individual themes and are given by professors from the PROFHistória faculty. At the end of the cycle of this period, the proposal is that new perspectives and possibilities may open up for the role of History teaching in scenarios of social crisis.
The discussions will have themes that reverberate connected issues in the contemporary world, organized around axes related to the teaching of History: uses of the past in the present; cultural diversity and history teaching; the narrative construction of contemporary events.
For the organizers of the event, the History professor knows, for example, the most evident theme related to the Covid-19 scenario: the epidemics recorded in world history, from the Bubonic Plague to the Spanish epidemic, to name the most famous, or specifically, in the case of Brazil, the meningitis epidemic in São Paulo in the 1970s.
Therefore, it plays an important role when thinking about questions like these: what is the learning from the experiences and solutions created by subjects and social groups at the time that went through such situations?; and how do they currently allow us to put our social experience with the pandemic into perspective?
PROFHistória is part of the Center for Human Sciences, Letters and Arts (CCHLA) and aims to provide continued training that contributes to improving the quality of History teaching in Basic Education, aiming to provide graduates with certified qualifications to practice the profession of History teacher. It is linked to the national network of professional master's degrees in History Teaching (PROFHistória), which has the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) as an anchor institution.
More information about the event on Sigaa and email: ufrnprofhistoria@gmail.com.
Programming
04/22: ICTs and distance learning in the pandemic scenario, with professor Vanessa Spinosa.
04/24: The war of images, the pandemic and the teaching of History, with professor Francisco das C. F. Santiago Júnior.
04/28: Inequality and exclusion from the perspective of gender and/or race, with professor Juliana Teixeira Souza.
04/30: Rom@rias in lives: cyberdevotions and virtual sanctuaries in times of pandemic, with professor Magno Francisco dos Santos.
05/05: History teachers as witnesses of History: some ideas at this time of pandemic, with professor Margarida Dias de Oliveira.
07/05: Uses of the past: recent history in the face of revisionism and denialism, with professor Haroldo Loguércio.
12/05: Material culture, archeology and teaching History in the midst of entertainment culture, with professor Roberto Airon Silva.