This article underscores the importance of recovering the teacher's memory in the studies concerning education and presents the results of a research performed regarding the teaching of History in the seventies, at a moment when this discipline was diluted in the area of Social Studies. The purpose of the study was to analyse how the teaching reform of 1971, known as Law n.º 5692, affected the teaching of History in the State of Paraná, more specifically in the city of Curitiba and its metropolitan area, taking into account, besides the written sources - such as official documents and curriculum -, the oral testimony of some teachers of Social Studies in that period. Although the applied methodology had developed from both written and oral sources, in this article prominency is given to the question of reconstructing the memory of the interviewed teachers.
teaching of History; teacher's practice; memory