Ensino de história e podcast: reflexões sobre a era Vargas e as leis trabalhistas

Abstract

This paper presents a pedagogical experience developed with 9th-grade elementary school students from a municipal school in São José de Ribamar, Maranhão, focused on the production of an educational podcast based on the study of Labor Laws during the Vargas Era. The historical content served as the basis for the creation of the pedagogical product, articulating theory and practice in the teaching of History. Through theoretical lessons and the exploration of concepts related to Labor Laws, students began to understand the teaching of History beyond the memorization of content and traditional approaches to the subject. Situated within the field of History Didactics, the experience fostered the development of historical consciousness in the students, leading them to recognize themselves as historical subjects and participants in social processes. This research adopts a qualitative approach, based on the case study method, and used student work and classroom observations as data collection instruments. The results show that the podcast, as a pedagogical product, proved to be an innovative and effective methodology for the development of History Didactics, enabling students to develop their own interpretations of the historical contexts studied and to express significant evidence of historical consciousness in their productions.