O Semiárido Brasileiro na visão dos livros didáticos de história e geografia no ensino fundamental adotados por duas escolas do sistema municipal e estadual em sumé-PB.

Abstract

This paper aims to present an understanding of how the Brazilian Semiarid issue is addressed in History and Geography Textbooks Component used by two elementary schools of the State and Municipal systems in 2010/2011 in Sumé (PB). It is assumed that education is indispensable in the transformation of realities of the peoples of the Brazilian Semiarid as a process built in its social, political and economic perspective of new directions in regional development. The methodology used in the research was the qualitative model, giving a cut to the textbooks analysed. The research field consisted of Gonçala Rodrigues de Freitas and Professor José Gonçalves de Queiroz schools. This work presents the characterization of Textbooks in ahistorical and cultural vision of teaching/learning. In recent decades, scholars have paid more attention to the assessment and quality of textbooks distributed in public schools because the Textbook is not the only support material for school teaching practices, but they are important in this process and they have contributed to students´s performance. On the otherhand, the inadequate approaches by some of these issues have alienated these educational resources of the realities of some Brazilian schools significantly. From this work, we can consider that the textbooks analyzed did not introduce to students the Brazilian Semiarid issue on the adopted perspective of this work, thus requiring a research involving school/society to change this view of works which brings the Brazilian Semiarid.