O mundo do trabalho segundo a geografia escolar : uma análise da Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC)

Abstract

This research aims to identify knowledge about the world of work as expressed by official pedagogical discourse in school Geography. To do so, the National Curricular Common Base (BNCC) was adopted as the empirical reference, the normative document that determines what knowledge of school Geography teachers must teach. The procedures adopted were historicalbibliographic research and document analysis, which allowed for the organization of this paper in three chapters. The first one discusses the relationship between work, space and society; the historical transformations in labor relations in Brazil; and the insertion of the theme ‘work’ in the geographic debate as an effect of the Critical Renewal movement, as well as the influences exerted by this movement on Geography taught in schools. The second chapter deals with the reflection on the relationship between the demands of the world of work and the training expectations placed on the school and on school Geography. In the third chapter, a documental analysis of the BNCC is presented. It was possible to verify that there is an effort on the part of the document to incorporate the main trends in the teaching of Geography from the beginning of the century. The results made it possible to contradict the initial hypothesis of the research, i.e. that the document would not provide the opportunity for students to get in touch with knowledge about the world of work. This opportunity is indeed provided, but in a way that is too general, reproducing one of the main criticisms directed at BNCC: the deflation of properly geographical content and concepts.