GEOGRAPHY TEACHING AND EDUCATION AT THE FIRST YEARS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (AIEF)

Abstract

This text presents reflections that emerge from Geography teaching and education at the first years of Elementary School. For that matter, the focus is given about teachers’ formation on teaching Geography in this stage of education and the possibilities of their professional practice, highlighting the role of this curricular subject at school and its meaning on children’s lives. Also on that perspective, the possibilities of educative practices that teachers can carry out, within different languages, so that the learning process at Geography is more meaningful to the students. We take as theoretical references authors who have dedicated their researches to this delimited thematic, with emphasis being placed on Callai (2010), Silva and Leão (2021), Rudolf and Rosinski (2021), Theves (2020), among others. The presented reflections work as a guiding principle to highlight that the initial formation given to Pedagogy teachers needs to be coherent with a conceptual and theoretical assumption which propose Geography thinking on facts and social phenomena from its study object and analysis categories. Besides, the Geography teaching and education at the first years of Elementary School may enhance children’s understanding about the world, amplifying the reading they make about it, as well as help them comprehend the relations among humankind and nature. In this regard, by considering that, at this specific moment, the first spatial abilities are built, so the usage of different languages, fulfilled with cultural artefacts, need to be articulated with childhood spatial experiences.