POSSIBLE DIALOGUES BETWEEN GEOGRAPHY, WRITING AND LITERATURE: KNOWING THE CITY'S PROBLEMS AND PROPOSING SOLUTIONS

Abstract

The present paper is the report of an interdisciplinary experience developed through a project involving the subjects of Geography, Writing and Literature with students of the 2nd year of High School. The curricular component of urbanization is a subject of the discipline of Geography and can be approached in order to foster the development of analytical and propositive competences on the part of the students, becoming a strategy for awakening citizenship. In the subjects of Writing and Literature, the reading and writing of different textual genres are part of the curricular proposal of secondary education. In order to make possible the dialogue between these areas, a programmatic reordering was done so that the theme urbanization was treated in the discipline of Geography concomitant to the discussion of textual genres in the disciplines of Literature and Writing. In order to mediate the learning process, a work was proposed to be carried out in groups. Each group was given the task of writing a report / denunciation of some urban problem experienced in the city of student housing. Subsequently, the same team should write an opinion article in which it would present viable alternatives to the solution or mitigation of the problem. In order to ensure a more systematic monitoring by teachers and collaborative writing, the document was building tool of the Google Drive platform was used. The positive results of the work and the good use of the students in the training and summative activities that approached the theme of urbanization are indicators of the effectiveness of the pedagogical proposal developed.