This article presents History teaching
practices in Brazilian Youth and Adult
Education (YAE) developed in 2023 at the
Ruth Passarinho State School, in Belém,
Brazil. Due to the specificities of the public
served and the difficult reality, without
support from public authorities, the History
teachers who work at EJA must build
a curriculum and select school content
that is meaningful to students. Therefore,
to work on important issues that would
stimulate reflection and criticism, we first
created a questionnaire to better understand
the EJA audience in a 4th stage elementary
school class. In this process, a
thematic approach proposal was constructed,
entitled “The excluded and marginalized
people in the Middle Ages and
in the present”, with the aim of addressing
the social layers excluded in the past by making relationships with the present
from the perspectives of the students.
