Research in the history of education: biographical evidence in digital repositories

Abstract

This work has as its horizon of discussion the possibilities and uses of digital repositories for carrying out investigations that operate with biographical aspects in the field of history of education. For that, we used the websites of the Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira - Fundação Biblioteca Nacional and the international genealogical research organization Family Search. On a daily basis, historians who research historical sources deal with the gaps arising from the absence of organized personal archives that contain sources related to the trajectories of educators, for example. In this sense, the alluded sites appear as methodological possibilities for those seeking biographical data, as well as training paths and professional activities. We understand that there is an indispensable contribution of these repositories in their various digital collections for the construction of the educational memory of subjects, especially in reference to research that deals with individual and collective trajectories, as well as biographical ones and with the reconstructions of genealogies for with a view to the production historiographical.