O trabalho de campo como instrumento para o ensino de geografia: a prática de proteção de nascente no Colégio Estadual do Campo Joany Guilherme de Lima

Abstract

The present research emphasizes the importance of the fieldwork in the teaching of Geography. As an instrument of action, a practical class of protection and preservation of springs was developed. The spatial cut of the research was limited to the community of Passo Liso where the subjects were the students of the Joany Guilherme de Lima State School, in the municipality of Laranjeiras do Sul, Paraná state. The central theme of the field work was the quality of the water consumed by the inhabitants of the rural areas, so before and after the practice of protection of the source, water was collected for analysis by a professional of the Municipal Health and Surveillance Department Sanitary School of Laranjeiras do Sul. Since Field Education prioritizes the study of the reality of the subjects of the field, their specificities and potentialities, without neglecting the compulsory school contents, starting from this presupposition, it was decided to develop the field work related to the daily life of the students of the school in analysis, with the purpose of stimulating the critical eye of reality. For that, the fieldwork contributed, because it allowed the opportunity to see and discuss environmental themes from the reality of the students, starting from the recovery of the source and arriving at larger issues such as environment and environmental preservation.