FIELDWORK IN GEOGRAPHY TEACHING IN BASIC EDUCATION: DIFFICULTIES AND CHALLENGES FOR TEACHERS

Abstract

The present work aims to identify how teachers conceive the fieldwork, describe the difficulties and point out the positive aspects of the development of fieldwork from the perspective of the teachers of Geography. The research was conducted in July 2015, based on information provided by Basic Education Geography teachers participating in the Specialization Course in Geography Teaching Methodology at the State University of Amazonas. In order to guarantee the impartiality in obtaining the data, Simple Probabilistic Sampling was performed. The research revealed that teachers understand that fieldwork stimulates autonomy in learning, allowing the student to feel protagonist within the teaching-learning process, helps in the socialization between teacher-student and student-students, making learning More dynamic and pleasurable. However, they have many difficulties in developing, so much so that there is a regularity in the use of this methodology and in the strategy to evaluate the activity developed.