HISTORY OF SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY: APPROXIMATIONS AND DISTANCES BETWEEN SCHOOL BOOKS OF BRAZIL AND SPAIN IN THE NEW SCHOOL PERIOD

• Grant number: 17/18176-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: January 05, 2018
• End date: July 04, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography
• Principal Investigator: João Pedro Pezzato
• Grantee: Diego Carlos Pereira
• Supervisor: Miguel Somoza-Rodriguez
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain
• Associated to the scholarship: 16/04813-4 - A WOVEN NARRATIVE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY: SCHOOLBOOKS, CURRICULUM AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION IN BRAZIL BETWEEN 1930 AND 1969, BP.DR

Abstract

The present research stage proposal is dedicated to the study of school textbooks of Geography as manifestation of the school culture of the school in a given period, setting themselves up as symbolic enunciation scenarios in school time and space. In this process, we study three decades (1920-1950) of the period of diffusion of the New School movement in its peculiarities in Brazil and Spain, which promoted significant changes in teaching methods in both countries. Thus, our objective with this proposal is to understand the approximations and distances between Brazil and Spain regarding the process of historical and cultural configuration of the ideals of the New School in the didactic constitution of school geography. Therefore, we intend to carry out a research and documentary analysis in addition to the bibliographic research. We will follow the qualitative assumptions of Bacellar and Bogdan and Biklen regarding the school textbooks of the period as documents. We will take into account the productions of the two countries, the Brazilian productions already being raised by the student in his doctoral researches in the country, while in Spain, the documentary survey will be based on the collections of the MANES Research Center and CEINCE (International Center for School Culture). The proposal is justified and characterized by the novelty of the theme, as well as by the existing gaps in Brazil about the relationship between school geography and the New School movement, fostering cultural and knowledge exchange among the institutions and researchers involved.