Abstract
Having Brazilian teaching as the object of research, this article seeks to answer the following question from a historical perspective: which Brazilian teaching practices are described in the pedagogical literature of the second half of the 20th century? Documentary analysis of three works of great impact in the educational literature is carried out and a brief analytical exercise is proposed. Far from exhausting these documentary sources, this analysis seeks to find some clues about the impact of these concepts on teaching in basic education that predominated in Brazil. Thus, the three trends that comprise (and continue to comprise) the guidelines of academic research in this period are mapped: in the 1960s, the articulations between teaching and traditionalism; in the 1980s, discussions about technical competence and political commitment; and, in the 1990s, centrality in teachers’ practice.
TEACHING; BASIC EDUCATION; HISTORICAL DOCUMENT; BRAZIL