Educação no trânsito integrada ao ensino da geografia: uma experiência no município de Delmiro Gouveia - AL

Abstract

This paper presents a brief analysis of the quality of traffic in the city center, based on the behavior of the people who travel in the downtown area of Delmiro Gouveia - AL, having as a concept the education for traffic assessing what preventive measures are being adopted and being applied according to the Brazilian traffic code, besides bringing how the teaching of geography contributes to the theme being worked in the classroom, placing the students as subjects acting in the process of teaching learning promoting the knowledge on the issues that guide the transit as rights, duties, laws, signage, so that they can acquire the knowledge necessary to put into practice. It also seeks to highlight the emergence of cities, especially the city of Delmiro Gouveia - AL, as well as the role of the teacher as mediator of the learning teaching process, and highlights the laws governing traffic. The analysis of this work will be based on the institution of the Municipal Superintendence of Transportation and Transit (SMTT) and its work in schools with the Safe Transit project begins in the school, being necessary the discussion on the subject that although complex is possible to be worked in the classroom. The approach of the research was qualitative, through the application of questionnaires to the students of the basic education of the municipality of Delmiro Gouveia - AL, in which they showed to know some terms pertinent to the traffic legislation, although this initiative occurred in a longer period recent through some partnerships between school institutions with the bodies responsible for monitoring and optimization of traffic in which it was possible to hold lectures on the subject and consequently the approach in the classroom. Thus, it should be noted that there are still gaps in relation to Prepositional and Efficient Traffic Education in which it is necessary to question the importance of teaching Geography from the approach of Traffic Education and its relevance to the society in general.