Os estudos amazônicos ministrados em escolas de Santarém: um olhar a partir dos materiais didáticos

Abstract

Considering the importance of Regional History and its inclusion in basic education schools and that its appreciation stimulated the elaboration and constitution of the curricular component “Amazonian Studies”, which emerged as a way to bring debates to the classroom aimed at socio-environmental problems related to the Amazon , the objective of this work is to analyze the representations of the Amazon in didactic materials of the curricular component of Amazonian Studies used in some public schools of Basic Education in the city of SantarémPA. The research aimed to verify whether these materials addressed themes that approximate the reality of the Lower Amazon region, a region that is inserted in the great extension of the Amazon of which the selected schools are part. Subsequently, we selected two public schools of basic education in Santarém, with the intention of obtaining didactic materials currently used by students. For data collection, we applied a semi-structured questionnaire to the teachers and analyzed the didactic material made available by them. From the investigations, it was identified the need to update and produce specific materials that meet the needs of the curricular component "Amazonian Studies", as well as the improvement of teachers who assume responsibility for this discipline, so that they can direct the classes the interdisciplinary approach, as proposed by the document designed for this school component.