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As revoluções liberais na história local e nacional: visões multiperspetivadas: The liberal revolutions in local and national history: multiperspectival views

by José Pedro Maia Reis

This internship report describes the implementation of the Project of Supervised Pedagogical Intervention (PIPS), carried out in the Master in History Teaching in the 3rd cycle of basic education and secondary education, developed in the Institute of Education at the University of Minho. To develop the pedagogical and research aspects, an approach was made around the 1820 Liberal Revolution, giving special attention to the multiplicity of perspectives and views on this problematic that is not consensual in the Portuguese historiography, since it is a fractious theme and that it provokes deep changes in the Portuguese society in multiple areas. The implementation was developed in a class of 11th grade from the district of Bragança. The main goal of the investigation is related with the reflection about the way the students understand the multiperspectivity in history, from several sources about the liberalism theme, in the scope of the local and national history. The aim was to analyze how local history can contribute to promote in the students a better understanding of national historical processes, such as liberalism, and to foster an understanding about multiperspectivity in history. Data were collected from individual tasks, such as pre-/final ideas questionnaires, worksheets and finally the metacognition form. These data were analysed according to Grounded Theory methodology. It was found that students value the evidence they take from the sources, they recognize that there can be different perspectives and explanations about the same historical reality. Some students already express more elaborate ideas at the multiperspective level, trying to relate the multiperspective explanation with the historical evidence from the sources, establishing several connections between facts at local and national level. They recognise the provisionality of the multiperspectival narrative, given the authorship, the time and the context in which it was produced.