School and knowledge of History and Geography: an academic subject and the education of sensitivities

Abstract

This article’s aim is to produce a narrative based on the experiences of a compulsory subject from the Pedagogy Graduation Course/Unicamp, which is dedicated to the formation of teachers to the work with history and geography on the early years of basic education. The text is organized in four small reflexive movements so that is possible to remember a long road of teaching/learning whose main motto and challenge have been how to work on the notions of space, time and social relations with 07 to 10-year-old children. The main point of this educational experience is the construction of an aesthetic rationality that is seen as a promoter of more dynamic relations among the subjects – teacher and students – involved in the production of more autonomous knowledge and sensitivities, which are associated to the different social-cultural experiences of those subjects.

Keywords

• Ensino de história e de geografia, educação das sensibilidades, formação de professores, saberes escolares nas séries iniciais, história das disciplinas acadêmicas