IMAGENS NOS LIVROS DIDÁTICOS DE GEOGRAFIA: SEUS ENSINAMENTOS, SUA PEDAGOGIA... (pictures in geography textbooks: their lessons, their pedagogy…)
Abstract
Este estudo realiza uma leitura sobre o significado de ser país ";;desenvolvido";; e ";;subdesenvolvido";;, nas imagens inscritas nos livros didáticos de Geografia do ensino fundamental. Ele se inscreve no terreno das discussões que examinam as relações entre poder e produção de significados, ancorada em ferramentas teóricas da Geografia Cultural. A investigação demonstra que essas invenções identitárias produzem significados por meio de vários referentes. A problematização e a discussão desenvolvida permitiram evidenciar existir regularidade na maneira de produzir as identidades. Também demonstram serem as identidades posicionadas com significados fixos, cristalizados e universais, predominando uma homogeneização de sentido. As diferenças entre as identidades são produzidas em diversas dimensões e constantemente alteradas, mas sempre seguindo uma política interessada em permitir serem posicionadas como distintas. Pelas diferenças, as identidades são definidas e classificadas, autorizando e legitimando uma hierarquia territorial binária entre elas.
Palavras chave: Livro didático de Geografia, imagens, identidade.
ABSTRACT
This study makes a reading on the meaning of being ‘developed’ and ‘underdeveloped’ country, in images in primary school Geography textbooks. It is inscribed in the discussion field which look at relationships between power and meaning production, anchored in theoretical tools from Cultural Geography. Investigation shows that these identity inventions produce meanings through various references. The problematization and developed discussion made it possible to show that there is regularity in the way identities are produced. They also show that identities are positioned with fixed, crystallized and universal meanings, a homogenisation of meanings being predominant. Differences among identities are produced in various dimensions and constantly changed, but they are always following politics interested in positioning them as different. Identities are defined and classified according to differences, authorising and legitimating a binary territorial hierarchy among them.
Key words: Geography books, imagery, identity.
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