"As vozes dos facões e os gritos das enxadas": a gamificação da história da Liga Camponesa da Galiléia em formato de RPG

Abstract

This paper proposes the development of a didactic product in the form of a role-playing game (RPG) about the history of the Peasant Leagues in the state of Pernambuco in the 1950s. The game will contribute to the debate about the history of the state and the limits and achievements of the democratic experience in pre-1964 Brazil. The students play a central role in the narrative by taking the protagonism of the choices their characters, would make in the context of the struggle for dignity and land in the rural areas of the state. "The Voices of Machetes and the Shouts of Hoes" aims for the players to be able to: i) recognize the historical and socio-political context of the game's setting; ii) seek survival solutions in the face of natural, political, and social difficulties; iii) experience the weight of their decisions on the fate of peasants, thus producing knowledge about this historical event, its origin, and outcome; iv) find the best solution to resolve their conflicts. The didactic objective of the product is, in addition to acquiring knowledge about dates and characters, for the students to carry out historiographical operations such as researching, evaluating, criticizing, and producing historical knowledge as autonomously as possible, as real protagonists of the teaching-learning process.