摘要：This research is inserted in a kind of studies that search the identity of pupil who attend to High School and the historical knowledge form. This paper is a result from a research project “Establishing knowledge, producing practices, searching the daily school life” developed by researchers of Federal University of Paraná, with the participation of professors and pupils of two High School of the city of Curitiba, in theperiod of 1998 to 2000. Five professors and 21 pupils were observed and interviewed. Also were applied questionnaires. Partial results indicated incongruence among the interest and pratical necessities of the young pupils and the objectives and practices of learning in History. The comparison European research according Tutiaux-Guillon/ Mousseau, 1998 and Machado Pais, 1999 allows conclude that this incongruence can be able to extend for other contexts and realities.
