Geografia Escolar e cotidiano dos educandos: o uso do mapa mental como ferramenta metodológica na Escola de Ensino Infantil e Fundamental Stela Sampaio - CE.

Abstract

The present monograph, which is part of the geography teaching area, aims at investigating and presenting a methodology that contributes with teachers and future teachers of Geography to work the geographic contents in the classroom, associating them to the everyday life of the students in Basic Education. The research presented in this monograph is qualitative, with questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, carried out with residents of the Pedagogical Residency (PR) program of the Geography subproject of the Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, campus Cajazeiras – PB, teachers of Basic Education classes and with the Geography teacher of the E.E.I.F. Stela Sampaio Lavras da Mangabeira – CE, in order to find out how they relate the geographic contents to their students' daily lives. Eighth grade students from E.E.I.F. Stela Sampaio were also interviewed, in order to find out their vision of Geography and if they know the importance of geographic knowledge in their daily lives. The platforms used for the research were Google Forms, Word, and Instagram. The theoretical material used for this research comes from authors who work with teaching in general, and authors who delve into the teaching of Geography. After knowing the information about the research field, the evaluation methodology was put into practice in the eighth grade A class of E.E.I.F. Stela Sampaio to correlate the geographic knowledge to the students' daily lives. To accomplish this goal, the mind map was used as a methodological tool. The results obtained showed that it is essential to associate school Geography with the students' daily lives. The conclusion of this research pointed out that the students develop teaching-learning in a productive way when the teacher uses methodologies that associate their daily lives with the geographic contents learned in the classroom.