Challenges for geography teaching in rural and urban schools

Abstract

The present study aims to make an analysis of geography teaching in rural and urban schools, with two schools in the municipality of Feira Nova, located in the Northern Agreste of Pernambuco, both public and municipal. It aims to understand the challenges faced by the various actors of both school spaces, such as students, teachers and management with regard to geography teaching. The research method used for the development of this work was exploratory, based on a qualitative approach to data. The procedures used were interviews with teachers, as well as observation of classes, to identify the greatest challenges faced. With the data analysis, a real deficiency in geography teaching was found, either due to the lack of continuing and specific training for teachers, or by lack of school structure, which directly affects the teaching-learning relationship that must be built with the student. Thus, the differences between the teaching of geography in the two teaching environments, which should be evident, end up being almost imperceptible, causing several problems in the formation of students through a widespread geography teaching and often unrelated to the reality of the students.