ABSTRACT
The research discusses the impacts of modernity and its different cultural dimensions in the history education, from the reading of reality found in different context of basic education school of Brazilian contemporary. We discuss how the redefinitions of the models that guide the history education - before ruled on memorizing, linearity and heroicizations - today present new problems such as memory's crisis, identity and devaluation (or forgettings) of the places of memory (Nora, 1993Nora, P. Entre memória e história. A problemática dos lugares. Projeto História, São Paulo: PUC, n. 10, p. 7-28, dez. 1993.) produced by historically different social groups, who spend no more recognize these spaces as representatives of their past. Our research belongs to the field of discussions on the social impacts of liquid modernity (Bauman, 2003______. Modernidade líquida. Rio de Janeiro: Zahar, 2003.) and seeks to reveal how the transformations that occurred in today's society have produced new forms of (re)think about the past.
KEYWORDS
modernity; history education; places of memory