Regional history: teaching, orality and classroom

Abstract

This article proposes a reflection on the importance of micro-history and regional history, particularly for the field of education. With regional history helps to recover the memory of a people, to understand their own lives and to find its identity. Concerning the methodology raises the review and management of written sources found in libraries, notaries, parish archives, cadastral records, press and letters letters, among others, we can point to Oral history, the recovery of individual and collective memory through the questionnaire and interview technique. In its relations with the education use of orality may constitute in a research field, to open new relations between the lounge, the writing of history and the traditional oral history of the foreign community. Oral history not only for the pedagogical, but also for the investigative part. From the recovery of individual memory, students participate actively of the collective construction of a near past.