Representations of history in young people from the basic school and university: a study on historical thought and identity

Abstract

This article aims to study the confrontation of social representations among high school youth the nighttime of a public school in Londrina - PR and graduated in history from the Universidade Estadual de Londrina, through the analysis of historical ideas that refer to aspects of temporal orientation and identity formation. The research was characterized by using ethnographic-inspired elements and qualitative questionnaires in order to meet the socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, as well as important aspects related to the formation of historical thinking of the groups surveyed.