The History of the Holocaust related to education in human rights in the early grades of Elementary School

Abstract

This article aims to present an investigation carried out with six teachers who work in the initial grades of Elementary School in a school unit of the Municipal Education Network of Curitiba and who made use of clippings from the History of the Holocaust as a generating theme in Education in Human Rights (EHR) between the years 2010 and 2019. In an attempt to understand how the choice for the holocaust theme was made and how such pedagogical practices were developed, this qualitative, exploratory, descriptive research used as data collection instruments interviews and group focal. In addition, the reports, containing the activities carried out within the EDH project, sent annually by the school to the Municipal Department of Education were used to verify information collected from the aforementioned instruments. The treatment of the data was carried out based on the Meaning Centers (Aguiar; Ozzela, 2006) that allowed understanding, from the perspective of the participating teachers, the process of consolidation of EHR in the school unit. The results point to a reformulation of the understanding of what EHR is by the participating teachers from the moment they became involved with the History of the Holocaust and started to use it as a generating theme for the development of pedagogical practices.