A literatura como recurso didático no ensino de geografia nas escolas públicas estaduais de Maceió da 1ª GERE

Abstract

The teaching of Geography allows students to understand the reality of their daily lives. Despite its importance, there are still many challenges regarding the teaching of this subject in Basic Education, since a classical vision of teaching Geography still prevails in schools. Thus, it is necessary to look for new methodologies to teach Geography as a way to bring the contents studied closer to the students' daily lives, and, among other elements, to arouse in the students a desire to learn and an interest in what is being taught by the teacher. In view of the above, the use of Literature can help in the process of stimulating the students' interest for the geographic contents. Moreover, the interaction between Literature and Geography is based on the capacity that Literature has to show the reality experienced by society through literary works, and this situation facilitates the understanding of Geography and its analysis categories, such as space, place, landscape, territory, and region. In addition, the ability of Geography to work on the interactions of man with the geographic space can be aided by literary works, since they describe a great diversity of events in different spaces and times. Thus, the use of literary works, whether or not they are paradidactic, in Geography classes is important, since it can provide Geography teachers with an educational action that is more fun and connected to reality. Therefore, this Course Conclusion Paper, whose results were presented as a result of the research project "Teaching Geography and Literature: o PNLD literário nas escolas públicas estaduais de Maceió", sought to know among other questions, what was the perspective of teachers of the State Public Network of Maceió about the use of Literature as a teaching resource in Geography classes, if they have used or use it in their classes, if the use of Literature was presented as a teaching resource in the initial and continued training of teachers and if there was the participation of the Geography teacher in the choice of works of the PNLD Literary 2018. It was also sought to know, in the view of teachers, about the reading habits of students. Regarding the research methodology, a survey and reading of bibliographic material on the theme was carried out. It is worth mentioning that the instrument for data collection was the questionnaire, targeting students and Geography teachers from the State Public Network. The results of the research showed that the reality of Geography teaching still follows a traditional model, that most teachers do not use Literature in their classes or have difficulties on how to use it.