Lecture organized by MANES: “How school textbooks deal with fake news. A case study on textbooks for Human and Social Sciences from the Brazilian National Textboook Program (PNLD)”
The lecture addressed the Brazilian experience within the Free Textbook Distribution Program for public schools, contextualizing its relevance for basic education in the country. In addition, the speakers discussed how the issue of “fake news” is treated in the textbooks of Applied Human and Social Sciences, distributed by the Brazilian government in the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, with a focus on the most widely used collections: Multiversos and Moderna Plus. The lecture presented the results of an exploratory, descriptive and infometric research, analyzing the contents of these works, highlighting trends, pedagogical approaches and possible gaps in the treatment of the subject.
