摘要:This article aims to discuss educational researches; it proposes to understand the actions and policies implemented having the subjects of history as reference. With that in view, the article calls for the collaboration of different fields of knowledge, mainly those of history and psychology. Historical materialism and the contributions of the social-historical psychology concerning the historical constitution of subjects are the theoretical basis of this proposal. To expose this theoretical basis, the article focuses an investigation in special educational where the student is taken as the central subject.