Contação de histórias na Geografia

contribuições da educação popular para o ensino da história e cultura afro-brasileira

Abstract

Geography is the science that studies the relations between society and nature and can contribute a lot with the teaching on afro-brazilian history and culture, whose purpose is to highlight the historical, social and economic importance of africans and afro-descendants in the formation of Brazil as a nation. Geography is used of different categories of analysis, being they the space, which encompasses the territory, the region, the landscape and the place, and all of them have interface with History, with Social Sciences, with Arts, with Economy and Politics, because events leave their marks in place, organize, and differentiate themselves in territories. And since the teaching on afro-brazilian history and culture has the purpose of renewing citizenship, since it allows the knowledge of another memory of Brazil, Geography can use as a didactic resource the storytelling based on afro-brazilian literature, rich in texts that present black as an important social agent, with traditions, technologies and knowledge, Replete with elements that refer to the geographical categories of analysis. As a pedagogical activity, storytelling allows the teaching of literature, both formal and informal, in a playful way, focusing on different contents of Geography, in an interdisciplinary way, thus contributing to the application of Law 10639/2003, allowing society to broaden its knowledge about Importance of afro-brazilians in the process of socio-cultural formation in Brazil.