DANCE AND MUSIC FESTIVAL: A PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE FOR TEACHING GEOGRAPHY IN YOUTH AND ADULT EDUCATION IN PLANALTINA-DF.
Festival, Dance, Music, Geography, EJA.
: In recent years, especially after the Covid-19 pandemic period, it has become increasingly difficult to keep Youth and Adult Education students motivated and frequent. Faced with this problem, this project presents a pedagogical practice based on the use of dance and music, aiming at the development of concepts and geographic categories arranged in teaching plans, in order to create new meanings and appropriations by students. The research covers actions aimed at implementing a teaching methodology that takes the Dance and Music Festival as an instrument for recognizing the culture of different Brazilian regions. The Education Guidelines and Bases Law of 1996 ratifies that Youth and Adult Education -EJA, will be aimed at all those who did not have access to school at the appropriate age. However, a major concern with the development of EJA learning concerns the methodological strategies that must reach all students, at different ages, and different levels of knowledge. Qualitative research will be carried out, with focus groups carried out, in 02 schools, among the 10 that will participate in the project, with the aim of verifying the perceptions of students, teachers and intermediate coordinators about the experience of the music and dance festival. The research will be based on the qualitative participatory research method, with the carrying out of focus groups, with the aim of verifying perceptions about society and cultural identity and its territories, based on the expressions of dance and music, as well as feelings of belonging in the interaction environment with each proposal. The practices produced by students according to generating themes are important, as it is a look at the environment in which they live, at different cultures and regions, at the language that dance wants to express, with regard to identity. territorial and also about their own life experiences. . This work aims to explore geographic concepts and categories, such as territory, space and place. From the perspective of Haesbart (2004, p. 21), the categories provide “lived space and the territory is always multiple, diverse and complex”. Thus, the work integrates a reflection derived from experiences of using dance and music for active methodologies in teaching of Geography conducted and guided by the author.