THE TEXTBOOK AND THE TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY OF BRAZIL

Aiming to reflect on geography teaching through interpretation of the elements shown in textbooks of this school discipline.Textbooks become a reference to periodize and analyze changes and continuities in teaching practices. Periodize is choosing different ways to view the process. We then define a period from the early 20thcentury until the 1960s, placingthe use of the textbooks written by Delgado de Carvalho and Aroldode Azevedo as the consolidation of Brazilian school geography. The Law 5692/71 established thegeography teaching at 1st and 2nd grades. This educational period was characterized by a diversity of geography textbooks. From the previous period, the Geographic paradigm of the Earth and the Man is kept. However, in this new moment theschool books do experience changes: activity oriented books as well as theoretical and methodological changes instigated by the movement of Critical Geography.In the third period, which began in the 1990s, textbooks started being developed and evaluated considering the National Curriculum for Basic Education and the criteria established by the Official programs for the distribution of textbooks introduced by the Ministry of Education