Dialectical and historical materialism in curricular field searches: the teaching of History in the course of Pedagogy

Abstract

This article results from academic research that investigated the curricular area of history teaching in private higher education institutions in the course of degree in pedagogy. Taking as premise the idea that analyze the proposed object from the thesis-that the teaching of History should be relevant in the curricula of teacher training-directs these writings to the reflective analysis under the methodological-theoretical lens of historical materialism dialectic - MHD. Assumes a posture of conceiving him as doctrine, recognized their limits, but admits that it's still the trend that better approaches the anxieties caused by the critical theory of curriculum. The aim of the text is to present epistemological and methodological elements-through critical review of literature-which guarantee a refined use of Marx's method, with the due proportions, applied to the field of curriculum, especially in the wake of critical theories. The theoretical object proposed here is only to illustrate how the theoretical categories of Marxian and Marxist dialectic, as contradiction, totality and social practice can be applied to studies of this nature.