Conflitos modernos: um produto didático sobre o modernismo e a modernização da cidade do Recife nos anos 1920

Abstract

This didactic product proposes a game, for students of the 9th grade of elementary school, about Republican Brazil in the early twentieth century. The game, which uses a board and cards as a platform, takes place in Recife, in the 1920s, and aims to insert students in discussions about the different conceptions linked to the Modernist Movement in Recife, Pernambuco, as well as to show some of the changes present in the city linked to the processes of modernization of spaces and their consequences in the form of leisure in society. Through the game, students will be able to understand the impact of some modern inventions in the formation of new patterns of urban coexistence, as well as be able to participate directly in the debates related to the different projects of Brazilian modernism. The main plot of the game is inspired by the intellectual conflicts between Gilberto Freyre and Joaquim Inojosa, who disputed ideas about what would represent, in the intellectual, cultural and artistic spheres, an authentic Brazilian, Northeastern and Pernambuco identity. While Freyre defended a modernism linked to regional tradition and the past, Inojosa supported a rupture with the past in order to build a modernism linked to the new inventions brought about by modernization. Therefore, the purpose of the game is to present information that will contribute to the construction of some historical concepts, such as modernization, modernism and modernity.