As abordagens sobre população na geografia brasileira (1934?2010) : permanências, transformações e rupturas

• Autor(a) principal: Mormul, Najla Mehanna
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Estadual de Maringá (RI-UEM)
• Texto Completo: http://repositorio.uem.br:8080/jspui/handle/1/2916
• topic: Geografia; População; Aspectos econômicos; Demografia; Ciência geográfica; Geografia brasileira (1934-2010); Brasil.; Population; Geography; Geographical Science; Brazil.; Ciências Humanas; Geografia

This thesis aims discuss how the population as a subject and discipline Population Geography were worked by Geography. For this we chose to perform a recovery on key historical or events that led to the development of geographical science and thus seek to identify the place of population studies. Our problem lies in the fact that the Population Geography, especially regarding Brazil (1934-2010) has been losing ground in both research and teaching. Accordingly, we adopted as the initial methodology literature or documentary, aiming to recover the accumulated scientific knowledge and uncover the problem. This research is theoretical and methodological, having both an exploratory and investigative. Therefore, we conducted a survey through the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) of the Graduate Program in Geography at Masters and PhD level in Brazil for the year 2010 and accessed the graduation of these institutions to check teaching plans and find out how is the teaching of Population Geography. Interviews were conducted with researchers geographers, who devoted much of his academic research on this topic. Still , through the bank of theses and dissertations from CAPES, diagnosed the volume of work advocated involving the subject population between the years 1987 to 2010 and analyzed two Brazilian journals in geography: Revista Brasileira de Geografia (1939-2005) and Boletim Paulista de Geografia (1956-2005), to verify publication on Population Geography regarding volume and frequency. To qualify the analysis conducted research paper source with the teachers working in the state of Paraná education, especially teachers working in the west and southwest, to evaluate the teaching population in Geography lessons. Based on the assumption Curriculum Guidelines for State Geography (DCE/PR) and public Geography textbooks of Elementary Education II (6th to 9th grade) and High School (1st to 3rd year) adopted in the last three years. Through these methodological choices got more familiar with the topic, as the way to approach the data allowed translate some information through charts and tables in order to not only be classified, but mainly examined. Adopted as a method of historical materialism dialectic, because we believe that it provides research and analysis of phenomena in their entirety. While it shows that the process is dialectical, therefore, is constantly changing. Therefore, this thesis provided an opportunity we understood better the population as an issue of geography, and also the emergence of Population Geography. Thus, we see the various theoretical and methodological approaches and the historical moments in which this field of knowledge has been transformed in Brazilian Geography. As well as understand the reasons that led to Population Geography lose "space" in geographical science, what is linked to the process of development of Geography and geographers and training teachers, who act as disseminators and formulators of geographical knowledge. In this sense, we believe that this approach allows us to think geographically and act locally, since we wish to understand and contribute to the development of population studies in Geography. Nonetheless, we tried to incite reflections and actions on this complex and challenging issue because it deserves more attention by Geography teacher-researchers, since there is much to do and so much to contribute to the development of geographical science as for Geography Population.