PRODUCTION OF SPACE IN GEOGRAPHY PROGRAMMES OF STUDY: PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS

Abstract

The school geography in Brazil is led by some official documents, which point, in particular, the contents to be worked throughout the basic education. That Discipline has passed through lots of transformations and in these contemporary times it lacks, in our view, new theoretical-methodological propositions to deal with the current socio-spatial processes. In this direction, one of the most relevant issues today is the urban space in its multiple problems. This text aims to draw, even in preliminary character, the importance of developing a school approach of the urban space from its production process, to highlight the agents involved, the related issues, with their multiple implications, as well as inexorable human transformations. In this section is spotted the need for a school-based approach that emphasizes the space being commodity to stimulate the understanding of varied socio-spatial processes, such as the spatial segregation, as the real estate speculation, as the gentrification, and as the urban public policies.