A abordagem do semiárido na educação formal em uma escola de Delmiro Gouveia - AL

Abstract

The present work sought to investigate the offer of the semiarid theme in the formal education of Elmirense through a research carried out at the Cooperative School of Teachers Vicente de Menezes, considering the school as the place where the subject develops the knowledge about social, political and cultural issues, aiming at to obtain a diagnosis about the insertion of the semiarid theme in its scholastic practice, as well as the knowledge that the students of the mentioned school has on the subject. The research follows a qualitative approach, being a case study type, the data collection instrument was a questionnaire applied to elementary students II, from the 7th to the 9th year. The results show that although all the students studied are all inhabitants of the semi-arid region, they do not know much about the region in which they are inserted and shows the need to develop a contextualized curriculum for this region.