A alfabetização geográfica nos anos iniciais de ensino fundamental: o caso de uma escola urbana da rede pública municipal de Alagoa Nova - PB.

Abstract

This monograph analyses the geographic literacy process in students from 4th and 5th grades in Escola Municipal Santa Ana – Alagoa Nova – PB. To its developments, it was based in bibliographical researches of authors from Geography and Educational field. On the other hand, it was constituted a case study that was based on the foundations of qualitative research. To obtain the empirical data, it was used questionnaires, in loco observations and the enforcement of activities-tests to the students from the both of the grades already mentioned. It was possible to prove that the geography teachers from these grades in elementary school are not clear about the spatial literacy. In what concerns the students, it was evident that few of them dominate the conceptual notions and the basic procedures that denote the geographic literacy in this level of teaching.