The Municipal Geographic Atlas as a Didactic Resource in Geography Education: elaboration and prospects for training

Abstract

The article presents a study about the elaboration and the use of the municipal school geographic atlas, according to the teaching conception, in the teaching and learning process of the Geography in the Elementary School. It presents results of a meta-analytical research that explained different processes and results of projects that elaborated municipal atlases of different Brazilian municipalities. In which the reality of these projects was related to the reality of a municipality that does not have this resource in the school system, as in the municipality of Canguçu-RS, pointing out different ways and possibilities of the school public (teachers and students) to use the municipal atlas as pedagogical tool for site study. For this, five different conceptions of municipal atlases were analyzed and semi-structured interviews were conducted with elementary school teachers in the municipality of Canguçu-RS. In the conclusions, the relevance of this resource in Geography classes is emphasized, especially by the local content base, familiar to the students, besides highlighting the relevance of the elaboration processes and didactic approaches that permeate the five analyzed examples. The article highlights that the participatory elaboration of the municipal atlas would be important as a perspective of continuing education for teachers, besides representing a qualified didactic alternative for the teaching of geography in the municipality.