The II HISTORY INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM: HISTORICAL SOURCES, TEACHING AND EDUCATION HISTORY, that is organised by the History Post Graduation Programme and Unidade Acadêmica de História e Geografia, represents a significant moment in the research practice that revitalises dimensions connected to subjectivity, teaching of history nowadays and researches about the education history, specifically in patrimony education, Afro-Brazilian educatio, Indian education and environmental education.

The I History International Colloquium: Society, Nature and Culture took place in 2008, aiming to create a space of reflection and discussion through the connection of diverse studies, both in temporary and thematic and methodological and theoretical terms in the relations with documentary sources, providing a privileged dialogue about cultural, social and spacious history practices. The International Conference, being organised by PPGH/UFCG, is a collective professors and students’ effort to create a space aimed to think about the multiple sources and the varied and emergent manners of investigation and problems assessment related to History.

In the second edition of our History International Colloquium, we intend to repeat the same success establishing a dialogue with researchers involved with the knowledge production in the field of research of history teaching and education history, in which these two pivotal themes became visible both in the teaching staff and in the researches of the students in recent years in Brazil and international institutions. The event will be a space of celebration and reflection of the 30 years of UFCG History course, that was created in 1980 by the then named UFPB, as Bachelor of History, (offering two areas of concentration: Social and Economic History and Arts and Culture History), and has established in Paraíba and Borborema region as a historiographic production locus, being a reference in researches about Afro-Brazilian and Indian themes, hygienist practices, health and sickness historiography, routine and leisure of cities, history teaching and history education, among other themes that got visibility in the field of historiography.

The II Colloquium, therefore, in celebration of the 30^th anniversary of the course, brings to academic debate the articulation and review of historical sources devoted to the teaching and history of education. Since the beginning of the Course, we have done researches, remembering, for example, our first research project, approved by by CNPq by the end of 1980’s, a pioneer project entitled "Fontes para a história do Agreste da Borborema", in front of each was a team of researchers containing five professors and six scholarship students. This project is a milestone in terms of historical production in and about the Borborema region.

For the UFCG History professors, that was the first research collective experience in history, and aimed to collect and organise the documentation that was then dispersed and / or about to be destroyed in multiple public files (notary, school, church and judiciary, among others) and private (from industries, farms, shops and people) from the twelve cities of Agreste da Borborema. This made the creation of SEDHIR (Region History Documentation Sector) possible. It is a space that in the past twenty years has emerged as a locus of research in the arid zone of Borborema as it gathers the most diverse documentary sources of different ages and profiles.

The experiences of research with multiple sources of documents by the faculty and students of history UFCG made us think this colloquium. Thus, each Thematic Symposium, Round Table, Lecture or Conference was designed with the goal of connecting energy, reduce tensions and establish bonds of sharing and exchanges among academic researchers from national and international institutions.

In times of globalization, this meeting proposes to think about the politics of truth prevailing in academy seeking a teaching of history that can contribute to the discussion of values on the multiplicity of issues that are historic and that are flowing in contemporary with new references, as the discussion of subjects and their ethnicity, their sexuality, their gender, their identities, their bodies, their honours, their moral, and so many other assignments built for subjects, reflecting the naturalization of those places.

The research of these and other sources can contribute to a qualification of the teaching of history in which the subjects might think the places historically built upon itself. In this sense, the discussion of citizenship leaves the question of modern thought, liberal and discusses how this thought sailed several fields to build a citizen facing comply with standards and accepted procedures. In the contemporary world it is the subjects that are on fire about the invention of itself and it is up to history education efforts to raise their contribution.