GEOPOLITICS ON CONSTRUCTING BASIC-EDUCATION GEOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE

Abstract

This article aims to analyze Geopolitics in the context of teaching Geography in basic education. Regarding the methodology, we dialogue with the assumptions of the Theory of Discourse, authored by Laclau and Mouffe (2015). We conducted interviews with teachers working in different segments of basic education and interpreted their answers using the corresponding bibliography, addressing the discussions presented in the text. We concluded that there are articulations responsible for keeping school subjects in curricula and that basic education in Geography, particularly its identification with Geopolitics through subjects of Current Affairs, plays the aforementioned role reaffirming the educational relevancy of this school subject. Considering the contents of Geopolitics, we concluded that the concept of territory emerges as the great organizing element of the construction of Geography as school-level knowledge. In this sense, the scale notions become pertinent in teaching Geography, in which the relations between the local and the global are constantly mobilized as the great markers of the possibility of comprehension of social reality.