“O preço dos ideais”: jogo de RPG sobre a Revolução Pernambucana de 1817

Abstract

This educational product refers to a RPG's proposal about the 1817's Pernambuco Revolution events. In this game, the students have a main role in the narrated story: they find challenges, missions, troubles and intrigues to be solved, becoming the revolutionary movement's protagonists. The roleplay game is titled "The Ideas's Price" and faced to the elementary school's 8th grade. It craves the students to be able to: i) reflect on the limits and ranges of ideologic basis which composed the movement; ii) simulate the movement's tactical and strategical defense difficulties; iii) experiment the local society decision's weight producing knowledge about this historical event, about its origin and outcome. The game's pedagogical objective is, besides any knowledge about dates and characters, that students/players are able to do historiographic operations like research, analyze, think critically and produce historical knowledge autonomously as protagonists of the knowledge's construction process.