Utilização do filme “Bicho de sete cabeças” como dispositivo pedagógico para o ensino de história

Abstract

This work aims to discuss theoretically and methodologically the use of cinema as a pedagogical device to be used as a resource in history classes in Elementary and High school. For this we use here as an instrument the movie “Bicho de Sete Cabecças”, allowing to present the history of the Brazilian asylums and their impact on society until then. From what was presented in the work directed by Laís Bodanzky (2001), the film became a starting point for the extinction of psychiatric institutes in the country. We establish as our theoretical basis the explanations made by Mark Ferro (1992) about the relation between cinema and history, as well as the theories expounded and formulated by the Annales school about the plurality of historical sources. Thus, we will seek to incorporate cinema in classroom teaching as a facilitating learning device in the education of the student.