O bairro Petrópolis e a geografia escolar

Abstract

During the educational process related to Geography, students may present difficulties related to the content taught in the classroom. School Geography has been an área very approached nowadays, because it seeks to reconcile the knowledge acquired in academia, that is, the theoretical knowledge of the teacher, with the knowledge obtained in the exercise of the profession (practical knowledge). We seek in this work to investigate the teaching-learning process in the neighborhood of Petrópolis, in the City of Maceió, State of Alagoas, and how this process can or could be used in geography classes, of the Otacílio Holanda de Andrade State School. This research is qualitative and quantitative in nature, because they were used in the elaboration of narratives of a teacher who works in the said School, in addition to numbers about the socioeconomic characteristics of the Neighborhood of Petrópolis, which were of fundamental importance for the conclusion of the same. For the implementation of this research, a bibliographic survey was carried out at first about the theme addressed; then interviews with residents and a geography teacher who teaches in the given neighborhood. In addition to this information, exploratory fieldwork was done throughout the neighborhood, photographic records, observation of satellite images and data analysis. Studies as these are important, because they can help teachers in the process of building students' knowledge, besides enabling the growth of knowledge related to the environment in which students are inserted in the day-to-day, the history of the Neighborhood of Petrópolis and in the City of Maceió itself, besides understanding how the process of growth and expansion of the same took place, allowing to identify which agents worked in this process of construction of the neighborhood. It is expected that this work can contribute to other academic research, with future school activities done by schools in the neighborhood object of study, or perhaps others, besides helping the local population who want to know a little more about the history of the neighborhood where they live, and that, in some way, this work can help some public agencies that want to develop some social action in the locality.