Produção do livro paradidático: uma pitada de sal no ensino de geografia

Abstract

This work proposes to contextualize the production of sea salt with themes related to the teaching of geography in high schools located on the northern coast of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, where the municipalities with the largest salt production in Brazil are located. This proposal was made through a didactic-pedagogical instrumentation textual, with the elaboration of a paradidático book, explaining the natural and human subjects in an interdisciplinary and transversal way. The research was based on empirical observations in relation to the saline industry that involves several contents worked in the Geography component that could be worked by teachers of basic education. Firstly, meetings were held with the pedagogical coordination (board, coordinator and teachers), followed by the elaboration of the didactic-textual material (proposed educational product), which was based on a constructive process and dialogued along 04 (four) workshops Pedagogical with the students. In these workshops, content related directly to the proposed theme was discussed, such as the historical, environmental, economic and cultural importance of the salinas of the region. Finishing with a field lesson in Salina Unidos (Macau-RN). The interventions carried out at the school confirmed the underutilization of the subject in the Geography class, allowing a wide discussion about its insertion in the school curriculum. It was verified that through the theme chosen for this work, the various categories of spatial analysis can be studied in a way that there is an interaction and transversality between the students' previous knowledge, based on their place of living, with the main events, phenomena and transformations of the Geographic Space at the regional, national and global scales, within the contents, skills and competences expected for the formation of the students.