Analysis of the Contribution of Field Classes in the Geographical Training of Elementary School Students

Abstract

This research sought to understand how field classes could encourage the study and understanding of geographic content, analyzing the benefits, seeing how theory and practice would come together in the teaching-learning process, in addition to realizing the role of interdisciplinarity in field research due to the different facets that the space presents and the inefficiency of the unilateral action of a single discipline in the face of the complexity of the world, and finally, to describe the main characteristics that make up this activity, with the aim of having a better idea of the steps relevant to its implementation. To this end, a bibliographical study of a qualitative nature was used with the descriptors: geography and teaching and field classes, on the websites Scielo, Periódico Capes and Google Scholar, in which there was a significant approval of the use of this methodology, as a result of of the benefits perceived, in addition, difficulties in carrying it out were reported, such as the lack of preparation on the part of teachers, who are not taught in a decent way how to carry out its application and, moreover, the use of field classes as an effective means of scientific initiation, in terms of presenting a study method that encourages students to research the phenomena that surround them, through an analysis that can be local, the place of belonging, the student's affection or an unfamiliar space, but which, if well worked on, can generate engagement whose main objective is to enable the individual to perceive and resolve personal and collective issues.