BAQUAQUA, PROTAGONIST OF FREEDOM

the uses of autobiography in History Teaching

Abstract

This article is based on reflections upon the use of the only autobiography by an enslaved male person who ever set foot on Brazil, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua. Said reflections have as starting point the experience of two practices adopted in the same intercampus teaching project named “Baquaqua ― protagonist of freedom”, which has as guideline the analyzes applied to the History curriculum redesigning at the Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais between the years 2019 and 2022. Therefore, the initiatives were set up at CEFET-MG, on the campuses Nova Suíça, Nova Gameleira, Timóteo and Curvelo, the first experiences with said project’s launching having taken place within the Covid-19 pandemic context, in 2021, interconnecting said autobiography with emergency remote teaching, as well as with the new Digital Information and Communication Technologies (TDIC). And, although they had the same teaching project as guideline, as well as target audience ― students in the 2nd year of the integrated technical courses of the Secondary School Technical & Professional Education (EPTNM) ―, each campus was allowed to adapt such project to the local reality framework, including prospects for inter-/transdisciplinary interchange and the development of specific methodologies and objectives established by the teams of participating teachers.