A idéia de América Latina nos livros didáticos de geografia / The idea of Latin America in the geographys textbook

AUTOR(ES)

Wagner da Silva Dias

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Latin America is a content generally worked in the eighth year of middle school when the school geography deal the regionalization of the global space. Regarding the study of Latin America, the textbooks have a simplified and generalized, hold off a proposal closer to reality and favoring the creation of stereotypes. The absence of further discussion in the textbook of the content is marked, despite attempts to justify the claim of Latin American unity in the historical context and based on statistical data. The textbooks examined invariably located Latin America in southern underdeveloped, have certain characteristics for this condition and take as the main cause of exploration and colonization to the external field. A set of thirty-three countries will be labeled with the ethnic Latin American, which became synonymous with these characteristics. We analyze the content in our work on Latin America in three textbooks, their references and theoretical bases. The result showed that there is an effort to justify an idea of Latin America, despite the large number of exceptions for each argument given as real and simplifying the reasons given. We note that, just search for unifying elements for the whole region, there is the absence of discussions such as: the origins of the term Latin America, the initial proposal for its formation and relevance of this region for all the countries belonging to it in order to diversity - physical and geographical aspects, levels of socioeconomic development, ethnic identities and nationalities that they have. Thus, this paper noted the need for a reformulation of content, less simplified and more questioning of the "Latin American reality." So, unlike continue to search for evidence to justify the existence of a region called Latin America, we hope that other search criteria for a regional less generalized, even to question whether Latin America would be a suitable crop for the study of school geography.

ASSUNTO(S)

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