Schoolbooks as Research Source: a Rise of the Production in History of the Education

Abstract

The present article presents a mapping of books, articles, periodic and communications in academic congresses that had schoolbooks as research source. We objectify to present a global vision of this field of research in Brazil, detaching, mainly, the times and the thematic ones investigated around the schoolbooks. In this perspective, we present an annual report of the productions located between 1957 up to 2010, and parallel, we specify the works produced in the history of the education in Brazil. We conclude to be thematic a present one that gained visibility as of the years 1980 and that more than half of the located production was produced in the 21st century. Significant part of the works is destined to investigate the manuals of history and portuguese. Another subject in emphasizes is the formation of educational/the professors and the use of the schoolbooks. But the most recent investigations present new subjects like “the production and circulation of the schoolbooks” and “the schoolbooks like source for the history of the education”. What it allows us to demonstrate the growth of this research field.