Educação Quilombola e Geografia Escolar: um estudo na Escola Rosa Paixão Garcez, Juçatuba-MA

Abstract

Education plays a fundamental role in the formation of an individual's identity. Through the educational process, students acquire knowledge that influences and shapes their identity, as well as their beliefs, values, and behaviors throughout their lives. In general, this educational role is performed by disciplines that we call human sciences. These disciplines aim to provide students with the ability to interpret the world and understand the cultural, social, and historical processes and phenomena that make up society. Geography is a science in the area of human sciences with a great capacity for positive collaboration in the ethnic and racial issues of society, and is therefore a school discipline of great relevance for the formation of students' social identity. When we relate the teaching of Geography in schools to the issues of constructing the cultural identity of children and adolescents within a school located in a remaining quilombo community, it is necessary to study the contributions of geography teaching to quilombola school education, seen as an element that strengthens identity. The present study aimed to verify whether the contributions of Geography teaching at the Rosa Raimunda Paixão School, located in the quilombola community of Juçatuba - MA, to the formation of the quilombola cultural identity. The research was of a qualitative and quantitative exploratory nature, for this purpose, bibliographical research, visits to the school and interviews with students and teachers were carried out. The difficulties encountered demonstrate challenges that need to be overcome, for example, the lack of teachers specialized in the subject of Geography and a pedagogical practice that explores culture and history composes