Enem, performativity and the dismemberment of the regional/local in history teaching.

Abstract

This article seeks to critically reflect on the basic training of young people who attend high school in a large outskirts of the municipality of Ananindeua, in the metropolitan region of the capital of the State of Pará, from the process of forgetting important historical landmarks of the national past, from the process of forgetting important historical landmarks of the national past in History classes, with focus on the state Magna Date of “Pará's Accession to Independence”. Historical approaches focused on the regional and local past are increasingly rare in classrooms, which made us think that public education is much more inclined towards the “performativity” of results in official exams, than towards human and educational training criticism linked to citizenship. Based on the analysis of empirical data from a socio-school survey carried out in 2018 – with official data, prescribed and effective curriculum, textbooks and interviews – we realize that this performatization has become more present since the institutionalization of National High School Exam, linked to the process of globalization in the area of Education, whose goal was to provide the preparation of students for a schooling linked to omnicompetence, immediacy and insertion in the labor market, without providing opportunities for critical reflections on the political and social reality, linked to the formation for citizenship, ethics and for living in society.