Representações das fronteira Brasil-Paraguai segundo alunos do 3º ano do Ensino Médio em Amambai-MS

Abstract

The transformations that Geography has been experiencing in recent decades are observed in the advent of new theoretical proposals and new research methodologies. This research, aims to seize up a methodology, ends up to ally the theory of representations to the boundary context, attempting to assist in the establishment of reflections on the Brazil-Paraguay border, more specifically on the border of the Southern state of MatoGrosso do Sul with that country. At the same time with this reflection seeks to contribute to the Geography’s teaching in schools located in that area. To operationalize the proposed research, fits into the context of intra-school classes in the 3rd year of secondary education in public schools, located in the municipality of Amambai/MS, in order to reveal the students' representations about this border. The results show that the availability of new directions for this boundary is possible, depending on new identification processes that can be emerged, especially in the classroom’s context. The appropriation of this new way of conceiving the border, in our view, can also be made available in the change of media’s attitude, which ends up conveying the image of a transgression.