Ensino de geografia e formação continuada de professores: possibilidades de mediação didática do conceito de lugar para a geografia escolar

The present study stems from the understanding that teachers’ continuous formation, by means of collaborative research, adds up to the meaningful learning of School-based Geography, through didactic mediation, taking into consideration student’s experience. The development of this thesis had as main objective to analyse the didactic mediation possibilities to the teachers’ continuous formation, and the teaching and learning of the concept of place in the School-based Geography in Cabedelo-PB. We have also seeked to know the research collaborative subjects’ profiles and their relations to the place, as of the city of Cabedelo. Therefore, we have identified the way the geographic contents were approached to verify whether the teachers relate to the reality of the place where they perform, in the classroom, and which difficulties they find to contextualize with the geographical knowlege. That way, we have developed collaborative didactic actions to the Geography teachers’ continuous formation, and to the teaching and learning of the students, and we have reflected upon the importance of the concept of place in the didactic mediation of School-based Geography. We ave taken into consideration teachers and students’ experience and knowledge. In our thesis we emphasize the concept of place, since it reaches a highlight extent in its restatement in the geographical theoretical production. Thus, we have as places of researching three municipal schools in the city of Cabedelo that have the 6th grade of the Primary Level. As for the collaborative subjects there are three Geography teachers, who work at the selected schools and their respective students. The selection of the 6th grade group was due to the fact of the contentes worked with this year, which in general aim at preparing the students to find themselves in the world, understand the place where they live and the relations between nature and society. Therefore, the research has a qualitative character with the use from the collaborative research, the use of ...