Os multiletramentos no estudo do município em geografia: uma prática interdisciplinar utilizando fotografia e escrita

Abstract

This paper aims to promote multiliteracies and interdisciplinarity between Geography and language area through a practice in Bagé – RS city study in a municipal school with Elementary forth grade students. With this goal, it was made a teaching unit as a pedagogical product to teach Geography to kids, mainly aimed at visual and digital literacy (images reading and interpretation and practice with photography), reading and writing (developing of interview genre). It was opted for interdisciplinarity between Geography and language area (Portuguese Language), considering Brazilian Curricular Directives for Elementary Education in the areas of Geography and Portuguese Language, about the fact that teaching is something developed in an integrated way and with the aim of leading the kid to learn to read and to write, through words and other ways, as well as visual and cartographic reading, both are fundamental in this scholar fase. To base the discussion in this research, there are authors as Soares (2002), Rojo e Moura (2012), Callai (2005), Straforinni (2001), Dondis (1991), Fazenda (2008), Santaella e Nöth (1997) e Marcuschi (2005) and Brazilian Curricular Directives for Elementary Education. In this sense, it was looked for creating activities to the teaching unit produced, including Bagé city study (theme that is explored in Elementary forth grade) in a Geographic global scale, that is not hierarchic nor fragmented, leading the kid to know through images and photographs the history, the daily, the human relations, the constructions and mainly the culture produced by people in Bagé over time. Besides, it was possible to show to the teacher the importance of seeking partnerships to accomplish an interdisciplinary work through workshops made with the assistance of habilitated professionals (photographer and journalists). In the analysis, it was found that the teaching unit produced develops significant processes in digital and visual literacy, reading, writing and oral abilities, providing the student the competence of working in groups and of using technologies in their learning. It was also possible to notice that the regent teacher, the one who participated of the whole process, helping the development of the classes, added significant changes to her pedagogical attitude in relation to interdisciplinarity and to kids Geography teaching, developing a new look to the work with the city theme in the forth grade. The practical activities, in general, pleased most of the students who acted as producers, showing a significant improvement in their organization and communication, and they also learned about several information about the city they live in. As a final result of this paper, a book was organized, and it is directed mainly to Elementary kids teachers, it has images, guide of the classes, descriptions of the photographs workshops and interviews and practices with interviews realized by students with people from Bagé. In this sense, it is expected that the teachers, when they have access to the presented Teaching Unit, make the necessary reflections about the proposal and make the adaptations according to their reality.