Readings of socio-spatial practices of high school students about the city of Duque De Caxias-RJ

Abstract

The socio-spatial practices are forms of analysis based from the needs and historical-geographic conditions of each moment. Through it, the man builds space. When thinking about such contribution to teaching, through these practices, in their daily movement through the city, the students accumulate ways of observing a place, checking the spatial dynamics of their neighborhood, commercial areas, urban and environmental problems. Thus, the text aims to reflect on the readings of socio-spatial practices of students, about the city of Duque de Caxias, as well as its impacts on everyday life. The chosen methodological framework is related to the Case Study qualitative approach, a particular form of study which enables the choice of the object and subject to be studied, from the analysis of the questionnaire with students, related to the understanding of the socio-spatial practice on the referred city. The results point to the ways in which students establish different ways of interpreting the city through their socio-spatial practices, being a potentiality to understand Geography as an element in the construction of their knowledge about the place.