Place and Landscape: Socio-spatial practices in the Curriculum of the city of Duque de Caxias- Brazil.

The comprehension about the socio-spatial practices of students permits to dialogue with the point of view that provides to work through constantly experiences with them. Thus, this research analysis how the study of city/urban contributes to former the concepts and school geographic contents using for this the analysis of socio-spatial practices of students of Education for Young and Adults in the municipality of Duque of Caxias in the city of Rio de Janeiro. It is important that themes related to the conception of city/urban be addressed in the curriculum to encourage the developing of socio-spatial awareness of citizen of Duque de Caxias. Methodologically, this works uses a methodology that explores the socio-spatial practices of students, because it is something known and experienced by them. Thus, the educator may uses the reality of students in order to explore their everyday. The teaching of Geography permits that discussions like these in this work be possible, because understand your own city, the social production, the urban issues and your right as citizen are relevant themes to the discipline of school Geography, all these question permits that students recognize themselves within the spatiality of their city. The results of this works shows that the most of students has many difficulties related to interpretation, concepts and geographic contents, as well as the lack of knowledge of their rights as citizens and residents of the cit