Com arte também se aprende geografia: formação on-line para professores da EJA - anos iniciais

Abstract

As a result of observations during Geography classes in Youth and Adult Education (EJA) initial years in the city of Londrina, it was observed the difficulty of teachers to associate the contents of the curricular component to the memories and life experiences of the students. Thus, this work aims, in general, to know the possibilities of teaching Geography in EJA with the use of songs and works of art in the teaching of Geography for EJA through an online training course for teachers of the area and, more specifically, to resignify this teaching in the face of new demands of the Common National Curriculum Base (BNCC) and apply enriching proposals through an online training for teachers of the area (educational product). That said, some questions have arisen: How to help the teacher in the selection and production of meaningful materials for such learning? How could Art be part of this significant process and contribute in an interdisciplinary way to the teaching of Geography? In this sense, we built a study based on a common theme in the lives of many students: the migratory processes and the saga of those who migrate in search of a better life. Artistic languages are full of "triggers" for this research, which provided fertile ground for another tool that transcends the simplistic view of art and also led to interart/intermedia studies. We then searched for a song by Luís Gonzaga and Humberto Teixeira, a poem by João Cabral de Melo Neto, artists who evoked northeastern themes, and paintings by Cândido Portinari and Tarsila de Aguiar do Amaral, Brazilian artists who also knew the migratory stories of the sertão. Methodologically, this is an action research, of the pedagogical intervention type, of a qualitative nature, guided mainly by the theorists Vygotsky, Barros, Fiorin, Souza, Bakhtin, Clüver, Gil, and Kristeva. These studies resulted in the creation of a training course for Geography teachers in EJA, online, in the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) format, a massive and open course, because of the need for a technological platform. The Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), in São CarlosSP, approved and hosted the course on its course platform in this format, PoCA (Open Courses Portal). The training was contemplated with seven thematic units, totaling ten hours of certification in the ODL format, since this research and educational product were structured during the social isolation of the COVID19 pandemic in the years 2020 and 2021. The course was very well evaluated by the participants, with 760 enrolled so far.