O módulo São José do Rio Preto do Projeto Geo-Escola – uma experiência educacional diferenciada

Abstract

The development of Geo-Escola Project in the municipality of Sao Jose do Rio Preto, situated in the northeast part of the Sao Paulo State, is an educational experience on Geology. It is a study of case. The activities allowed the participants - teachers of Science and Geography- to adopt Geosciences as the basis of getting a professional knowledge which, as citizens, they need as well. Geology is essentially a historical science of Nature, an inheritance of human knowledge that aims at the understanding of the materials, processes and products of planetary evolution in all senses. Several kinds of educational resources were used, especially fieldwork, allowing the participants to create an identity with the world around them, a result of singular importance. The research has exposed concepts revealed in theory as long as it also allowed one to identify and to visualize the related concepts and to get a deeper understanding of teaching. It has also legitimated the overall process: if the investigation adopts the premise that Geoscience knowledge plays a special role in an education for sustainability of life as a starting point, the obtained results allow to confirm it.