The Laboratory for Research in History Didactics (LAPEDHI)

A reflection about its use for teaching history of education

Abstract

This paper is an experience report which aims to describe the experiences and present one of the several possibilities of studies existing in the Research Laboratório de Pesquisas em Didática da História (LAPEDHI). The laboratory is located at UNEB-CAMPUS VI and preserves several historical sources, mainly regarding the History of Education in Bahia. Methodologically, the report is organized first from a narrative perspective, which shows the experience and the importance of LAPEDHI as a place to produce historical knowledge. Next, we present fragments of the developed research. In this sense, we analyze teacher-training materials about the Law of Directives and Bases of Education (LDB), Law n° 5.692 of 1971, from sources kept at LAPEDHI. The analysis results show the ideological influences of the military dictatorship and the capitalist sectors that bet on the reform as a basis to leverage the country's development through the professionalization of teaching, trying to make the reform a "new conception of school." The collection held by LAPEDHI opens space for studies with various possibilities for historiographical research and represents a rich environment for the construction of knowledge for undergraduate students.