Sources for the history of secondary education the class reports of the “history subjects” at the Ginásio Estadual de Itabaiana/SE (1951-1968)

Abstract

The purpose of this article is analyzing class reports as a source for the history of secondary education, more precisely, for the History of the “subjects of History”, namely: History of Brazil, America and General, from the Ginásio Estadual de Itabaiana, between 1951 to 1968. To achieve this goal, at first, we present a brief discussion on the history of school subjects. Following that, we deal with aspects of the History of secondary education in Sergipe and the Ginásio Estadual de Itabaiana, later, we present elements of the materiality of the class reports located in the School Archive of the current Colégio Estadual Murilo Braga, as well as some problematizations for working with such sources in the studies of the History of Education.