Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente (Dec 2022)
Escola pública, educação geográfica e vulnerabilidade socioambiental ampliada em tempos de pandemia de COVID-19
Abstract
The text discusses the vulnerability of basic education geography students and teachers due to the working conditions and the lack of access to the study of socio-environmental disaster risks, elements absent in the text book. The reflections are supported by results of research and teaching carried out by researchers from federal universities of Minas Gerais, in the field of geography education, during 2020 and 2021. The surveys wer ecarried out during the Supervised Internship and the Teaching Practices under graduation courses, all carried out online. In this context, question naires were applied to 46 Geography teachers from several municipalities in the southern and south eastern regions of Minas Gerais. The discussion of the results and there flections presented here are based on the concept of Power fulk nowledge, on the idea of an intellectual teacher, on the discussion of culture bodies and on the notion of socio-environmental risks. The results show that the teaching and learning conditions, school contentand internet access in the time of Covid-19 pandemic contributed to thein creased vulnerability of students in the face of socio-environmental risks due to the lack of access to knowledge on the subject and to the students' socioeconomic reality.
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