USE OF REGIONAL BOATS IN THE GEOGRAPHY GRADUTION COURSE FIELD WORK: THE IMPORTANCE IN FORMACION THE GEOGRAPHY IN AMAZONAS

Abstract

In the state of Amazonas, geography students do much of the fieldwork on regional boats along the rivers of the region. The present work aimed to demonstrate how the fieldwork contributed to the formation of geographers, through the experiences lived by the undergraduate students in geography of the 2008 and 2009 classes, from the Federal University of Amazonas-UFAM and the State University of Amazonas-UEA. The methodology used was the literature review and interviews with open questions. The results were: a) the unanimous perception that respondents consider fieldwork in undergraduate studies in geography as an extremely important activity, which provides the undergraduate student with a view of the phenomena studied and their understanding in practice; b) fieldwork carried out in regional boats, allows the opportunity to experience another reality, which may even be unknown to students residing in cities; c) boats allow access to unreachable places by road, especially in the Amazon. Given this the present work dared to propose a form for the practice of field work, aiming at the best use of field practices, so important in the formation of the geographer.