Educação geográfica para a formação cidadã.

Abstract

The constitution of citizenship is a significant subject in basic education, and the reflection about the contribution of geographycal education sustains the hypothesis of this analysis focused on the argumentation that through geography there are possible paths towards the citizen formation. To understand the development of the process of education towards citizenship through geography in schools, the place is defined as concept of space of living for the students, and the textbooks have central role in it. The theoretical and methodological basis, as well as the hermeneutical critique, sustain the interpretation of data produced from interviews with teachers and the analysis of textbooks. It is verified that geographycal education is understood as the possibility opportunizing the constitution of the citizen through studying geographic matter. However, in the practical actions in schools and the matter of the textbooks, the learning process is reduced to simple repetition of written knowledge.