A geografia nos documentos curriculares para o exercício da docência nos anos iniciais.

Abstract

The existing Geography knowledge in the study programme of the elementary school is the main focus of our research. In this work, we seek to analyse how the Geography subject contents are taught and organized through an analytical cutout that includes the study programme of the elementary school of the Municipal Secretary of Education and Sports of Pelotas City/RS and the study programme of the Pedagogy course of the Federal University of Pelotas.The official programmes documents (Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais and Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais) were investigated and it was possible to identify some gaps about their guidelines and orientations in the elementary school as much as in the courses of initial graduation in Pedagody. The inconsistencies that the professionals of this level of teaching denote when they come across the knowledge of Schoolar Geography in the elementary school justify the intention of this research which seeks to identify what is the existing Geography in the schools‟ daily basis that concern the study programmes in the elementary school. Therefore, the metodological proccess that defines this study is anchored in the qualitative perspective that describe matters such as the theoretical references and the contents earned in the semi-structered interviews taken with teachers of the community of the theme in study. In this phase of the work, it was possible to structure the sistematization of the contents about the answers collected in the interviews taken with the teachers in a way that it suggests an “Ideal Geography” that concerns one of the purposes of this study.This way, this idea of an geography for the elementary school is about the establishment of the otherness as a problematizing category that tangencies a better comprehension about the Geographic Science in the elementary school. This way, it is by putting us in the shoes of a Pedagody teacher that we can dialogue with wider efficiency about the importance of the Geography knowledge at schools, mainly with teachers os this level of teaching which has always been latent in the study programmes of the elementary school.