The space of Human Rights in post-BNCC History textbooks: an analysis of textual fragments of “complementary content”

Abstract

This article analyzes the presence of themes related to Human Rights in History Textbooks based on textual fragments present in the narrative of the texts, developed after the BNCC. To this end, our theoretical framework is supported by the contributions of Circe Bittencourt when dealing with the nature of the Textbook, and by the contributions of Giuseppe Tosi and Vera Lúcia Candau, regarding the idea of Human Rights and Education in Human Rights, respectively. At the same time, this work is based on the research methodology of the bibliographic study and also on the contributions of Laurance Bardin regarding content analysis. It is concluded that the Human Rights are presented in a diffuse way, presenting, in fact, the theme of Human Rights. However, its appearance is revealed to be simple, where the achievement of these rights is much more aligned with financial capital than with a social and historical achievement, privileging the narrative of global economic powers (such as the USA, Germany, England) and, in contrast, barely addressing the achievements/implementation of rights in peripheral countries