A concepção dos licenciados em geografia da UFPE sobre a formação cidadã na educação básica

Abstract

In front of the current Brazilian political crisis, marked by the polarization and inability of respect and divergent political positioning and for the growing lack of interest from Brazilian population by exercise of citizenship, of difficulty of critical reading from political reality, the research search to understand the conception of licensing in Geography from UFPE about citizen formation and how the Geography contribute for the construction of citizen in basic education. In LDB, Law nº 9.394, from 1996, one of the purposes of basic education is prepare the students to the citizenship exercise, against that, to educate the students to a citizen participation requires effort of education professionals, especially the Geography teacher, for having the function to transmit the knowledge to students in a way they understand the surroundings dynamics where they live. The Geography, on the other hand, as a curricular component contribute for a citizen formation, forming an individual who recognize the dynamic of the world, besides being understood as social individual. The methodological approach is qualitative and quantitative, and the type of research is exploratory. the research grounded in a documental research, where is made an analyses of Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, of elementary school of the final years (6º grade to 9º grade) and high school, of Diretrizes e Bases Law, and also the Political Pedagogical Project of Geography of UFPE, having as objective understand the objective of Geography in Basic education and how its contributes to citizenship formation. From the questionnaire applied with 20 concluding students of Geography, objectives to understand the conception of this students about citizenship formation and citizen exercise. In reference to the theorical referential for such concerns and discussions the same was based on thinkers: (CAVALCANTI, 2012), (PIMENTA, 2009), (SCHÖN, 2000); (CALLAI, 2011), (BONAVIDES, 2000). It can be said that given the achieved results, it was identified a framework of students from Geography graduation who cared with the citizenship formation of basic education students, concerned about the problems in relation to the government of their country, they are citizen who participates of politics, demonstrating political consciousness, besides having a good understanding of citizen conception. Thereby, this research is important because we can verify that in Federal University of Pernambuco they are graduating Geography teachers aimed to citizen formation.