This article discusses the production of history text-books in Brazil. It reflects on some recent discussions focusing on the pertinence of their contents, and it presents a short analysis of Brazilian editorial market and the sales of text-books both to the national authority who will distribute them among public schools and to the private market. The article raises a few questions about the qualification of teachers and the structure of History courses, which generally privilege research instead of teaching, making it difficult to establish a coherent structure for teacher training courses.
History teaching; production of text-books; teacher training courses
