“Em Mato Grosso do Sul é assim”: as contribuições do ensino de sociologia na educação básica para construção de identidades em Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

This research is inserted within the field of Sociology of Education approaches. Its aim is to reflect about the construction of identities in Mato Grosso do Sul. Whereas this construction involves an important role of media and school, the general objective of this study was to analyze the contribution of the teaching of Sociology in basic education for the construction of identities in MS. This is an analytical research, with readings of works about identity and construction of identities of authors as Ranger e Hobsbawm; documental research of governmental official medias as sites, magazines, documents related to education, curricular proposals of the State, pedagogic proposals of schools and of the discipline of Sociology; field research, with interviews with teachers that teach the discipline of Sociology, and the application of questionnaires for students of high school. The results indicate that the identities of Mato Grosso do Sul are still under construction, but remains trailing behind of media, mainly, of the official medias of the state government that tries, by publishings in magazines, newspapers and sites, to form identity characteristics inherent to the State. With the analysis of the teaching of Sociology we noticed that its contribution to that construction corresponds to the objectives of the discipline for basic education, but the issue is little studied in the researched schools. Is expected that the study may contribute for discussions about the construction of identities in MS, as well as for aspects about the importance of the teaching of Sociology in schools of basic education and of how that may contribute in different issues, among them the construction of identities.