Curriculum and education of Geography: curricular orientations and Educopédia in the Municipal Education of Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

The school curriculum is an instrument of formation of the individual, through his discourses, convergences and divergences: conceptual, methodological, pedagogical, social and political that from it organizes certain knowledge. This knowledge, in which we highlight the geographic, has as premise to read and interpret the world through its physical-natural and human-social phenomena. Thus, this paper aims at a theoretical debate about the role of geography teaching through the use of Educopédia based on the analysis of the curricular guidelines of the Municipal Department of Education of Rio de Janeiro. The methodology used was content analysis of the digital platform of the contents of geography and the Curricular Guidelines. The results show that the curricular organization of contents, aims of teaching seeks to have efficiency in the results. It is observed as objectives set for the learning of the students to recognize, to observe and to identify the geographic elements, of specific contents, but not associated to the aspects of the quotidian.