O curso de História na Universidade Federal de Alagoas: dos primórdios à sua consolidação (1952-1979)

Abstract

The main purpose of this dissertation concentrates on the History of the Formation of the History Professional at the Universidade Federal de Alagoas, from the beginning of the course up to the decade of 1970, when the course is consolidated. This work is a research about History of Education that follows the foundation of the first course of graduation in History in Alagoas in the context of the foundation of Faculdade de Filosofia, in 50’s last century, that time it was a History and Geography course. This work emphasizes a fine itinerary period of the course, since its establishment, with its first professors and first curriculum, going through the dictatorial period which started in 1964, with emphasis on the creation of short degree in Social Studies. Considering that the training of professional history occurs in various spaces and dimensions of the subject's life, apart from training in university, the research tried to establish a dialogue between the history course and Public Archives of Alagoas as a likely influence the course, their projects and their practices. In addition to bibliographic and institutional documentation to be compelling, were the sources of this study also interviews with former teachers and teachers who were active students of the course.