A contribuição da Geografia, na Educação Básica, na construção da cidadania: uma análise a partir do território

Abstract

The education for citizenship is one of the objectives of Basic Education and Geography, as a discipline of this level of education, must contribute to the formation of the citizens. This research has as topic “Geography’s contribution in the Basic Education at the construction of citizenship: an analysis from the territory” and aimed to analyze the contribution of Geography teaching in a third year high school class, at Escola Estadual Normal José Bonifácio (Erechim/RS), for understanding the geographic space in a citizenship vision. Specific objectives were defined to discuss the knowledge and pedagogical strategies developed in the teaching of Geography in the Basic Education of the school, and to analyze how the High School student of Basic Education understands the space lived as a territory, from the study of Geography, in a contemporary world. The methodology is that of action-research, qualitative boarding in the modality of study. The investigation counted on the analysis of Pedagogical Political Project (PPP) of the school, in order to identify the notion of citizen/citizenship expressed in it, of the geography teacher’s work plan in the three years of high school, and the textbook used, referenced in the Curriculum Parameters for High School. There was intervention, through the focal group with the students. Among the conclusions, it was verified that the students do not understand the education, work and leisure as citizenship rights. Phenomenon such as globalization, exist as a "fable" or a "perversity" rather than a "possibility" and seem to have their own existence, independents of the system. They do not perceive the spatial / territorial arrangement as reflecting the structure of the dominant system. The territory is perceived in your economic aspect and rarely as a space of human life. Students showed to be unaware the local urban territory and had difficulties to perceiving themselves inserted in a space classified according to income brackets. In this way, it is necessary, in working with different spatial scales, to bear in mind that citizenship, whose exercise begin on the local territory, may expand to other scales and for feel belonging, it is needed to know it. The research product presents some principles and suggestions to be observed when working with the discipline of Geography in Basic Education.