A construção de um saber geográfico na escola: possibilidades com as experiências vividas

Abstract

This study aims at investigating possible ways to acieve a geographical knowledge at ashcool through processes of teaching and learning which take in consideraton the experiences of the individuals involed the process. Such knowledge goes beyond the academic-scientific knowledge. In the relations involving the existing geographic knowledges in the school and the various possible pedagogical praxis, the construction of every event is unique for the school’s universe is made up by several possibilities such as popular and scientific knowledge as well as personal experiences. In the case of Geography, the construction of a given knowledge at school is necessarily linked with the understanding of the main categories of analysis of this discipline, especially the geographic space and the place with which the students ay become able to understand the existing spacial relations with in the timespace where they live. Therefore the perspective of this research is an ontology on the teaching-learning process of Geography which highlights the experiences lived by each individual involved. The reports of the experiences described in this article are a possibility to give voice to the experiences lived in the construction of the geographic knowledge at school but still focusing on the scientific method and on the research method by subjecting to the critique, stimulating and making possible to students and teachers feel like the real protagonists of the teaching-learning process with their own experiences.