A construção de conceitos geográficos para estudantes da educação de jovens e adultos no contexto da emancipação dos sujeitos da Comunidade Quilombola de Paratibe em João Pessoa - PB.

Abstract

The construction of knowledge in school necessarily cuts across the relations between students’ reality and the constructed scientific knowledge. In a socio-constructivist approach taken at Geography classes, the learning about the concepts happens at the cross between science and learners’ reality. At young and adult education, the restrictions between the night shift classes and the students’ professional job force teachers to find new strategies to promote their contact with the space analyzed. It were presented some aspects of the environment, the experience and the appropriation of space by the Quilombo Community of Paratibe/ PB by using cinema footage, worked out some geographic concepts, such as space, territory, landscape and location, aiming to assess how students developed their learning processes about these subjects. This work is a qualitative research with content analysis, thus the students’ texts were assessed according to these concepts and intending to highlight the identity of each concept in the space reality presented. We conclude that there are interesting advances in conceptual construction process and awareness about the necessity of defending community rights through geographic knowledge.