THE PHOTOGRAPH AS A METHODOLOGICAL STRATEGY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ABOUT THE SEMIARID REGION

Abstract

The Tropical Semiarid is the predominant climate of the Brazilian Northeast, which characterizes its nine states and a small portion to the north of Minas Gerais. It occupies 12% of the national territory and is home to about 28 million people divided between urban (62%) and rural (38%) contexts, being one of the world’s most populated semiarid region. Unfortunately, when it comes to the pedagogic context, the Brazilian semiarid region continues to be underestimated, mostly because its schools have a curriculum structure that is poorly integrated with its real features and the need for its conservation. The disciplines of Science/Biology and Geography are the ones that most address the contents and studies focused on the semiarid region and they need tools that develop motivation for learning. Nowadays, an accessible didactic tool is the photography, considered very useful when it comes to teaching. Given this, we performed a literary review on the use of photography as a pedagogical tool of teaching about the semiarid region, consulting journal portals such as Scielo, Google Scholar and CAPES, in addition to physical material. We found out that photography becomes a very effective pedagogical resource in teaching and learning about the semiarid, being quite accessible and allowing the development of activities of observation and description of various phenomena, even if the individual does not know this particular environment.