A linguagem conceitual geográfica : uma dimensão da prática docente no ensino fundamental

Abstract

This work consists primarily of a theoretical research that sought to justify what followed: an action research, showed and presented here. This action research has the intend to structure teaching situations involving geographical concepts for the early years to show its relevance to the understanding of space itself experienced by students. This study was conducted in a private school in Caxias do Sul, with two conductors teachers of the third year, and this research is qualitative, it was based on the assumptions of the methodology of action research. The research was made on face meetings between the researcher and the teachers, and half-face meetings between the educators. These meetings enabled discussion around the process of concept formation in the child, based on Vygotsky´s sociocultural theory and the teaching of geography in early literacy. Authors who study the presence of geography in education were used to this study. These meetings also allowed the organization and implementation of the pedagogical activities of educators taking into account the conceptual apparatus of geography in the study of the city of Caxias do Sul. The methods used allowed the students to identify and understand various aspects of the environment in which they lived. This type of research allows the researcher to act in the place chosen for the research, as an agent in context which aims to bring the theoretical discussions and contribute to the teaching-learning. The results showed that this type of approach a researcher at the place of research nurture new ways of understanding the learning processes, particularly in relation to the teaching of geography, which shows contribute immensely in the process of schooling, as this survey demonstrates.