A herança portuguesa na formação do Brasil: discutindo raízes do Brasil e seu legado nos livros didáticos

Abstract

This research claimed to analyze the Portuguese heritage contribution, through the works of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, to the development of the Brazilian identity, from its early days until today. Brazil from the 1930’s was a period of an extensive and rich historiographic production towards the Brazilian nation constitution and Brazilian people. Classic authors from our historiography have established themselves with their masterpieces launched in this decade and in the following years, and in that background was when Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s works, especially “Roots of Brazil”, gained scientific and academic legitimacy, which contributed to perpetuate in the Brazilians’ daily life and unconscious, the idea they have of their country and, in many occasions, assigned to the Iberian heritage, the Brazil’s delay towards the western modern world. This research aimed to raise how certain concepts constructed by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda - which continue to be defended by a whole generation of succeeding scholars but are also criticized by some researchers - are still present in the 2018 books of National Book and Teaching Material Program. From the research with the didactic materials adopted in the public schools of Brazil, we chose to develop a learning object that, using the Xerte tool, would make a reflection on the presence of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's ideas in the textbooks, using activities that led the student to perceive and question the so-called Iberian heritage.