Desafios e possibilidades do ensino de geografia nas escolas do campo: uma análise a partir do contexto da Escola Doutor Edvaldo Brandão Correia no município de Conceição da Feira - Bahia

Abstract

Thais articule will adresse a reflection on how geography teaching has been carried out in elementary school classes, from the perspective of rural education, in the municipality of Conceição da Feira, Bahia. It is important to note that Conceição da Feira is a municipality in the state of Bahia, located in the Metropolitan Region of Feira de Santana, with an estimated population of 22,840 according to IBGE, 13,154 of which are urban and 7,254 are rural, equivalent to about of 36% (IBGE, 2016). It should be noted that although the percentage of rural population is only 36%, the area of the municipality considered by the IBGE as an urban center has strong rural characteristics (economy, culture, infrastructure, etc.), which leads us to a reflection on what in fact it is rural or urban. In the course of the article will be presented some questions, to highlight: What geography has been taught in these schools? The traditional and mechanical geography that does not allow students to feel part of the space they study or a geography that allows the formation and critical analysis around the space around them? How to work geography in the classroom, from the perspective of Field Education? To answer such questions we use a methodological approach of qualitative analysis, with the accomplishment of bibliographical, documentary and field research. In this last one, the development of activities of geography in the classroom with the students (geography workshops) stands out. The analyzes carried out led us to understand that the teaching of geography in Conceição da Feira still occurs on the basis of the reproduction of contents of the didactic textbook and approach of subjects without any link with the local reality. Reality is, as pointed out earlier, that it differs significantly from the characteristic patterns of urban space (a single view addressed in schools). In this way, it is necessary to understand that teaching geography goes far beyond what is proposed in the books, it is necessary to propose a new look at how to teach and learn geography allowing subjects to understand their spaces, origins, identities and cultures as the objective to broaden their reflections territory. Through this article, we try to develop in the students the understanding of human actions and their relations with space, so that they have subsidies to critically analyze and understand the society in which they live, becoming active citizens, gradually expanding the scale of geographic analysis, such as getting to know your home, school, street, city and country.