A cidade na sala de aula: estudo sobre os espaços de lazer com jovens do ensino médio

Abstract

The relation between the city and education is a way for citizenship formation, and the scholar geography can help in this process. This paper discusses results of an action-research performed with high school young people in a public school in Guarapuava to verify how young people’s daily knowledge can be appropriate for geography teaching as a way of geographic thought development. Leisure places were chosen as heme and it was applied one didactic sequence, which collected data using a questionnaire, mental maps, field research, and conversation circle. It was verified mechanisms in the set of contents, concepts, and procedures of school geography, for the formation of citizenship in young people, as the recognition of problems, the construction of solutions aiming to read, interpret and act on the city.

Keywords

• leisure
• geography teaching
• educator city