Livro didático de geografia: potencialidades para a educação geográfica

Abstract

This work dealt with the geography textbook and its potential for education in the teaching of geography, having as the research locus the Centro de Ensino Estado do Mato Grosso, located in the neighborhood of Forquilha in the city of São Luís, state of Maranhão. The theoretical basis in the corresponding literature was the basis for the study. It is applied research. It uses the historical-dialectical method as a method. As for the technical data collection procedures. it is Survey. It arrives at the State of the Art through a bibliographic survey in the categories listed in the investigation: Geography Teaching and Textbook. It has the assertion that using the textbook greatly enhances the construction of knowledge of geographic themes. It makes use of bibliographical materials of authors that dialogue with didactic books in the teaching of geography. Data collection was done through a questionnaire and interviews with teachers and students. It presents, as a result from the data obtained, the finding that the textbook is a resource easily used in many realities as the only resource by Geography teachers because the teaching of the discipline still follows, to a large extent, the school reality, the same traditional context positivist with a fragmented profile in which it was historically conceived in the educational scenario with a system of drawers in which the themes are separated with watertight models, resources and planning. It concludes that it is necessary to reframe the textbook used in Geography teaching and that it should start from initial training for the development of the discipline