Educação e Cidadania: um elo para emancipação humana nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

Education is the pillar for the development of human beings, it is the path to awareness of the world. In this sense, family, school and teacher must go hand in hand in relation to the student's learning process, thus allowing their critical awareness. Therefore, education for citizenship is an essential element to leverage this teaching process, as it enables a focus on human emancipation. Due to this estimate, the bases that promote learning for students need to have a democratic, participatory, autonomous and critical conception. In this way, this research corresponds to a related study on the teachers' point of view regarding citizenship education, in a regular municipal school in the city of Pinheiro – MA. It refers to an exploratory study, intending a qualitative approach. This research involved the participation of 08 teachers working in primary education in the early years. Through the questionnaire applied, it was possible to recognize what teachers perceive in relation to the content on citizenship. In summary, with regard to the participants, timely results were found in relation to their pedagogical practices, from this perspective, it was possible to consider the difficulties in promoting good citizenship education.