Legião Urbana: conscientização crítica e ensino de história

Abstract

The band Legião Urbana played an important cultural role in the historical context of Brazilian redemocratization. In view of this, and understanding the relevance of the use of music in the teaching of history, we prepared the present work with the scope of discussing and analyzing the use of the music of the band Legião Urbana during history classes, in order to foster and expand a greater critical awareness. of students about problems present in society, such as corruption, violence and wars. This work was based on the concept of historical awareness (RÜSEN, 2001 and CERRI, 2011), on the analogous concept of critical awareness (FREIRE, 1979) and on the ideas of emancipatory and critical education (hooks, 2020). Ninth grade students from a municipal school in Parnaíba in the state of Piauí participated in the qualitative research, to whom two questionnaires were applied to assess their previous knowledge about the object of this work. Subsequently, a didactic sequence was carried out that culminated in the production of dissertation texts as a pedagogical product of this research. Through the production of texts, it was possible to observe that the use of the music of the Legião Urbana actually fostered a more accurate critical sense, perceived in the discussions in the classroom. In view of the above, we conclude that the use of didactic tools such as music has an important role in promoting an approach of students to themes that would not normally arouse their interest, raising a greater formation of their critical thinking, making them more aware citizens about problems political and social aspects of Brazil and the world.