In our analysis we take as a starting point a central question: What is the role of school geographic knowledge for the transformation of the socio-spatial reality, considering the essential objectives of promoting social justice in Brazil? To this end, we consider the teacher in his central role in the construction of school geographic knowledge, turning our attention, within the scope of this work to the analysis of curricula of geography teacher training. Starting from the central idea that geographic knowledge holds enormous potential for its affirmation as a powerful knowledge, we turn our attention to the analysis of the potential contributions of the critical strand of Political Geography to the renewal of the school Geography curriculum in Brazil. We justify this option, on the one hand, by the recent attempts to institutionalize limits to research and teaching in the Human Sciences, approaching that to the discourse of neutrality that marked science and that profoundly influenced geography education during an important period of our history. On the other hand, because we understand that, in order to achieve the broader objectives of citizen education, indicated as an essential goal in policies and programs aimed at education in Brazil, we need to go through a trajectory that dialogues directly with the bases of politics. In a first stage we analyze the use of the concept of politics, taken as an threshold concept, in curricula of geography teacher training. Our most general purpose is to contribute to give greater visibility to the existing and necessary relationships between critical Political Geography and Geographic Education, which is intended as part of an emancipatory education process. As well as offering contributions to the rethinking of curricular policies that allow the citizen to mobilize school geographic knowledge to act politically in relation to the problems that are manifested in the contemporary world.
Mots clés : Powerful geographic knowledge|Teacher training curriculum|politics|Threshold concepts
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