Memória e educação : a Operação Cajueiro no ensino de história (1976-2023)

Abstract

This research has as main objective to analyze the historical knowledge of students in the 3rd year of high school public school referring to the civil-military dictatorship in the state of Sergipe giving greater attention to the 1976 Operation Cajueiro. This episode was a repressive action that the state experienced during the military regime which resulted in the arrest and torture of some PCB (Brazilian Communist Party) militants. Using the resources of oral history and interviews and documents produced and collected by CEV/SE (State Truth Commission - journalist Paulo Barbosa) it was possible to analyze the memory of important characters in the history of Sergipe which are often forgotten and not taught in the classroom. Through interviews and surveys carried out with students from the 2nd grade of elementary school we seek to know Operation Cajueiro from Sergipe students to assess their degree of understanding of the history of the state during the dictatorial period.