Didactics in Geography teacher training in Brazil: elements for analyzing its relevance in teaching

Abstract

This text analyzes the initial training of Geography teachers, based on Course Pedagogical Projects from Brazilian Federal Universities. The focus was on the pedagogical-didactic dimension, with emphasis on the subject of Didactics, as essential for learning the profession. Thus, the text addresses a critical perspective of Didactics, defends the specific Didactics of Geography, identifies disciplines with this theme, their syllabus and basic bibliography. As a result, the analysis identifies the limited presence of Geography Didactics and Geography Teaching Methodology as formal course subjects, and a greater emphasis on what we understand to be correlated subjects, which deal with teaching but focus on specific themes, which may be reinforcing the traditional fragmentary and pragmatic nature of the subject. The study carried out for this text was restricted to the analysis of the PPCs, revealing the need to expand the data for a more qualitative analysis of the subject.