DECOLONIZING THE GEOGRAPHY CURRICULUM AT SCHOOL: A LOOK FROM YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION

Abstract

This article presents a current discussion about curriculum in school Geography, with emphasis on Youth and Adult Education (YAE), guided by the perspective of an interdisciplinary, intersectional, antiracist and decolonial education, which seeks to present and value different ways of looking at the world. We bring the experience developed in 2021 in elementary and high school YEA classes in the Human Sciences Block at the UFRGS’ Colégio de Aplicação. The proposed curriculum is founded in structuring concepts that allow a both critical and social education, aiming at active citizenship insertion, knowledge of rights and duties, and appreciation of democracy. In this context, Geography offers elements for the development of geographic thought by means of themes and concepts that speak of the students' close reality, but that also allow the understanding of the connections between spatial relations at different scales. It was possible to observe that the arguments brought by them were more developed. The change in the conduct of these students was perceptible and, over time, they became more and more participatory and confident in their statements.