Historical Education, Pandemics and History Teaching: Validation of Historical Knowledge in Internet/Revisionism Times

Abstract

In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, the challenges for the teaching of history found, in technology, new support, but also contradictions. With a new perspective on the teaching of the discipline, anchored in the theoretical field of Historical Education, the work based on the epistemology of History started to demand from historian teachers a practice in which the relationship with historical sources is fundamental. In this way, the idea of a historical source was further expanded, as the web contains an infinite number of materials that can be conceived as historical documents. In addition, the use of the internet as a means of interaction between different subjects in the schooling process presupposed a relationship in which technology needed to be redefined due to the possibility of support, but also ask for its influence as a disseminator of superficial and skeptical ideas regarding the scientific knowledge.