A extensão do LOGEPA e suas contribuições na formação em professor de Geografia

Abstract

With a patrimony of a model of the State of Paraíba of almost five meters in length and several other didactic resources available to the university and community access, the Laboratory and Workshop of Geography of Paraíba (LOGEPA) constitutes a space for the strengthening of geographic education. In this research, we sought to understand the contributions of the extension project '' From the Coast to the Sertão: Society and Nature in Paraíba '', held at LOGEPA, in the I campus of the Federal University of Paraíba, in 2018. The project’s main goal was to comprehend the contributions of the extension project in the foundation the of Geography teachers. This is a qualitative work, in which we use participant research. For this type of research the researcher's participation also contributes to the analysis of the effectiveness of the educational practices carried out in the geographic education workshops, and a better understanding of our practices. We conducted a semistructured interview with 3 participants from the Geography course and 1 participant from the Pedagogy course, where it was recorded and then transcribed for analysis and contextualization of the contributions of the project ''From the Coast to the Sertão: Society and Nature in Paraíba''. In contextualizing the answers obtained, based on authors who study the university extension, we consider that the exchange of knowledge contributes in the approximation between, school, community and university, strengthening the relation, theory and practice. Therefore these activities help these participants to be more autonomous in their teacher training, overcoming some current challenges.