O estudo de campo e a sua importância para a construção do conhecimento geográfico do lugar de vivência do aluno: o caso da escola localizada no Bairro Cruzeiro, Campina Grande - PB.

Abstract

Geography of Education can provide the student with a comprehensive learning when working interrelationships between the local and the global. Thus, this research aims to verify that the teaching of Geography is analyzing the transformations of the landscape occurred in Cruzeiro neighborhood (Campina Grande City in the State of Paraiba in Brazil), from the installation of AeC Call Center Company in Juscelino’s Kubitschek Avenue and linking these areas with more distant ones. Therefore, the use of maps, images, and cartographic drawings can contribute to the observation of this landscape in the student's daily life, so they are able to differentiate the Local and the Global rescuing the past and comparing to today’s landscape. The methodology used free observation emphasizing “the observing" as the investigation procedure and the interview as analysis technique of teaching practices. In this perspective, we found that most of the teachers work with the concepts of place and landscape, and have used the field study on the construction of geographical knowledge. However, the analysis between the local and the global are not evidenced. Moreover, one of the teachers highlighted of having done studies on the transformations in the last decade of the neighborhood, which shows probably that Jucelino’s Kubischeck Avenue and the AeC Company had been used as examples in class. However, we found that the study of the place is treated in a more subjective perspective and it is necessary a more critical analysis of this reality, relating it to other external elements, favoring a more effective reading of the world.