Literatura de Cordel: uma estratégia lúdica no ensino de Geografia.

Abstract

The present work aimed to encourage the geographic studies in the final series of the Elementary School in the Municipal School of Primary Education Maria Marques de Assis in the city of São Domingos – PB, through the knowledge and appreciation of the cord literature that favor the students’ knowledge about the uses and social functions and cultural aspects of the Northeastern people. The cord comprises an oral discursive genre, narrated and / or sung, accompanied by a viola, and written, printed in booklets, for the purpose of informing, entertaining, telling facts, teaching, honoring, among others. The study evidenced the importance of cord poetry, as well as its conception and historical context. An investigation was made on the pedagogical practice of the Geography teacher, more specifically, regarding the use of cord literature, as an important resource for this purpose. It was also tried to identify the forms of insertion of the cords as pedagogical resource for the learning in the classroom in the final series of Elementary School. The methodology used was the bibliographic research, which subsidized us to obtain a better understanding of the subject. It is concluded that the string disposed as a resource in Geography classes, favors a dynamic and creative teaching, whose purpose is to contribute to the development of subjects in formation, thus effecting the learning process.