Ensino-aprendizagem de geografia: o potencial dos jogos e da gamificação na busca por novos horizontes educacionais

Abstract

The general objective of this master's degree dissertation is to analyze how the use of active methodologies based on games and gamification can contribute to the teaching-learning process in the geography discipline. As it is a professional master's degree, our technical and technological product is the board game entitled Cidade em jogo: Rolê in Upaon-Açú. The type of research is descriptive, in related to the proposed objective. For the data collection method, we used the survey method, starting from a qualitative approach. The research was developed with 26 high school students and 1 geography teacher from the state public school system. The results show that it is necessary to understand the teaching and learning of geography from a critical perspective and focused on the students' reality, based on a real need to implement new teaching methodologies. We conclude that the use of an active methodology based on games and gamification offers a possible way to provide new teaching methodologies in the educational field, providing an innovative approach that stimulates student engagement, developing cognitive skills that promote a deeper understanding of geographic reasoning.