Atlas digital de bacia hidrográfica e educação ambiental problematizadora: por uma geografia escolar de diálogos e pronúncias

Abstract

The contemporary environmental issues challenging educators to urge students to understand the space in which they live and understand the responsibilities of their actions, stimulating their critical faculties. It is also hoped that the global environmental events, as explored in textbooks, may be somewhat approximate the student's reality therefore, it is necessary to use alternative instructional materials and miscellaneous manufactured from the reality of the school and the next the student every day. For this approach to work in Geography School, suggest the basin as the spatial area that provides better understanding of the relationship between society and the local environment. Thus, this work presents the Digital Atlas of watershed of Balsamo (Campo Grande, MS), a teaching resource and pedagogical assumptions built under the Problem of Education by Paulo Freire. The production of this material was guided by two main issues: 1) coding situations about the environmental problem of living space, arising from dialogue and pronunciation of the local community and students of the Escola Estadual José Barbosa Rodrigues, located in the Watershed of Balsamo, 2) the potential of generating themes from the use of the Digital Atlas of Watershed of Balsamo in the classroom as a teaching resource for Geography. The approach used was qualitative research, using methodological tools such as the preparation and analysis of mental maps (Methodology Kozel, 2007), the development and implementation of lesson plan, the photographic record, the documentary survey, the dialogues, the literature review and preparation of the Atlas. We conducted a thematic research on Balsamo´s Watershed, based on dialogue and pronunciation, to raise the coding situations that contributed to the selection of themes addressed by Atlas. After aiming the questioning, was produced the Digital Atlas was soon after applied to students of the 7th year of elementary school the school studied, aiming at the collection of generating themes for, then back up the mental maps of the students enabling pronunciation. As a result, we determined that Atlas Digital may be an important resource to enable the emergence of pronunciation, identifying the main environmental concerns of students and resulting in the group, critical reflection.