History and Historian: Yesterday and Today

Abstract

The article investigates some notions of the origin of universal
historiography and promotes a reflection on the concept of History
in antiquity and today, especially in classrooms of juvenile education.
For that, a basic, exploratory, subjective, and inductive bibliogra-
phical research was carried out within the scope of the written
production of classical and contemporary authors, with a view to
contributing to a critical re-reading of the historiographic bases,
something that is necessary given a characteristic of the constant
evolution of science, which demands more and more technicality
and specialization ñ and this happens to the historical discipline
too. The purpose of reflection is to foster a critical discussion that
contributes to the teaching of History in the classroom, in the present
day, since the world today seems less and less prone to the study of
the humanities, for several reasons. The conclusion is that we cannot
forget the past teachings, much less how humanity faced and over-
come its problems and challenges, with confrontations and solutions
that transformed the past into a present, and from here arises the
mission of building the future, aware that we will not evolve if we
are not very clear about the notion of the human condition at all
times.