History as an Instrument of Formation and Transformation: Analysis of the Citizen Education and Transformation of the Critical Sense of 2nd Year High School Students

This research addresses concerns about the problems of classroom practice. With the aim of growth and change in professional development, it resulted in the dissertation concluding the master's degree. Therefore, providing foundations for day-to-day life in the quest to equip the student to be able to perceive the various worlds, analyzing past and present human relations and what they can say about each other, in the contextualized process. The results showed that we must fight for the school to be a democratic space for socialization and collective participation, so that a critical sense can develop, as it is the duty of all those who are part of the school institution on a daily basis. And this research also aims to provide reflections that can contribute to professionals at different levels of the field in the construction of organizing knowledge and thoughts about the purposes of teaching History and its role in the formation of future generations.