A Educação de Jovens e Adultos (EJA) e o ensino de geografia na Escola Cidadã Integral Técnica (ECIT) Alice Carneiro, em João Pessoa-PB

Abstract

In teaching licensure majors, the curricular component Supervised Teaching Internship has been indispensable for the students teaching practice experience, considering that, the internship in the school provides a linkage between the theory studied in the academy and the pedagogical practice itself, experienced in the classroom. Thereby, this work aims to reflect on the lived experience in the Youth and Adult Education (EJA), during the Supervised Teaching Internship III from the major of Geography (licensure) from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). The internship’s pedagogical collaboration took place in the Technical Integral Citizen School (ECIT) Alice Carneiro, located in the Manaíra neighborhood, in the city of João Pessoa, in Paraíba state, under the supervision of the school’s Geography teacher. Another object of investigation in this research was the observation of the school functioning and the profile of EJA collective subjects. Therefore, the methodological procedures adopted were: bibliographic and documental research; observation of the Geography classes lectured by the school teacher; elaboration and application of a diagnostic questionnaire with the students; planning and execution of Geography lectures in the VI Cycle (EJA) class; and, the critical thinking about the internship. The results highlighted the fact that the EJA curriculum must be designed according to the modality particularities, recognizing the life histories, the experiences, the territorialities and the students’ realities, through the dialogic didactic mediation. The utilization of different methodologies in Geography teaching can be a successful alternative in EJA, as long as the pedagogical practice do not separate the school knowledge from the knowledge brought by the students during the class. In order for this to happen, it is essential to know who they are, what is the meaning of searching for the schooling process and what is the purpose of Geography in this context.