A prática docente e a alfabetização cartográfica nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental

Abstract

The present work results from the elaboration of the conclusion monograph of the Degree in Pedagogy, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), Academic Unit of Garanhuns (UAG). For the accomplishment of the same, we start from the following question: how does the teaching of the cartography in the classes of Geography in the initial years of the basic education? In this sense, the general objective of the research is to investigate how the teacher teaches cartography contents in Geography classes in the initial years of elementary school. It was a field research with qualitative approach, carried out in a public school of the Garanhuns-PE municipality, in the month of December, 2018. The data collection instrument used was a semistructured interview, containing 11 questions directed to 05 (five) teachers from 1st to 5th grade. Research has shown that some interviewed teachers have difficulties and insecurity in working on cartography for students and that sometimes they resort to the help of friends who are trained in the area (Geography) and research in books or the internet a better way to teach. The results also showed that the subjects of the research consider the teaching of cartography important, since it allows a reading of the world that the student can only accomplish, if the teacher is safe, know the subject and know how to mediate the contents of Geography in his classes. In this way, the understanding of cartography in the initial years of elementary education is of paramount importance, since the student will take this knowledge throughout the period in which he is in school and even after leaving it.