Análise da percepção espacial através de maquetes dos estudantes do 5° ano do ensino fundamental da Escola Municipal “Santa Luzia” do Macurany

Abstract

This article aims to understand how the students of the 5th Elementary School of Macurany Municipal School "Santa Luzia" perceive and represent by model the spatial transformations that occurred in the community, through the implementation of the Vila Cristina residential complex. This study was conducted by a qualitative research and a phenomenological approach. For the students of the community, the geographic space in its initial stage presented in its majority the physical or natural aspects present, as igarapés, lakes, animals, plants and all interaction and interdependence between them. Every modification witnessed by students in nature was probably due to their parents' need for work. However, with the urban expansion of the city of Parintins culminated with a set of activities performed by society promoting the transformation of the geographical space of the Macurany community. The article is organized as follows: in the first part it discusses the importance of Teaching Geography for the understanding of geographic space. Later, it approaches the model as being an essential resource for the representation of reality. It then discusses the reproduction of the space of the community of Macurany and describes a brief history that led the residential complex Vila Cristina to be built in the locality. In the last chapters, it analyzes the changes in the community perceived through the study of the environment, as well as the transformations occurred represented by models made by the students.