ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY THROUGH RESEARCH AS AN EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLE: A CASE STUDY IN THE CITY OF PATOS-PB

Abstract

The ways in which teacher-student relationships are established in the quest for an effective teaching-learning process have been transformed following the demands and changes of the Brazilian educational scene. In Geography such changes are present because it is a science whose object of study - the geographic space - is constantly altered, in this sense, in the quality of school discipline has undergone several transformations that have repercussions in the school environment. This research seeks to analyze how the teaching of Geography can make the student the producer of knowledge and not mere spectator and copier than is already put in textbooks. The students were oriented to produce their own knowledge, having as main theme the social inequality in the city of Patos - PB, through researches that have the educational principle (DEMO, 2009) and through the accomplishment of didactic projects (BEHRENS, JOSÉ, 2001 ). The participation of students as active subjects aims to contribute to an increasingly solid formation focused, above all, on citizenship, since it becomes a critical subject, as it will need to question the phenomena and how they occur in the space in which they inhabit. A bibliographic research was used to support this study, as well as the use of an action research where research activities were proposed for students of the 9th grade of a public school in the municipality of Patos, Sertão Paraíba. Through this, it was noticed that the students showed greater curiosity and interest when they put themselves in the function of researchers from the findings realized in loco.