Enseñanza de 'temas controversiales' en la asignatura de historia y ciencias sociales desde la perspectiva de los profesores * Teaching of 'controversial issues' in history and social science from teachers' perspective Ensino de 'temas controvertidos' na disciplina de história e ciências sociais na perspectiva dos professores

‘Controversial issues’ are topics under which different groups have built irreconcilable arguments on. Therefore, they divide society. Some of these topics are now present in the teaching of history. Thus, the purpose of this research is to describe the teaching of ‘controversial issues’ in history subjects in secondary school. A nonstatistical randomly stratified sample with proportional representation was used. A self-administered questionnaire was applied to 111 teachers of public schools, private subsidy schools and private paid schools. A statistically