O Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística e a contribuição na formação de professores de Geografia no Brasil 1962 – 1971

Abstract

The present work had as general objective to present, discuss and analyze the handouts used in the Vacation Course for the improvement of Secondary Education Geography teachers, made available by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics in the period from 1962 to 1971 in Rio de Janeiro. The recess courses were part of the National Geography Council's cultural dissemination program offered to teachers from all states and federal territories, aiming to culturally improve secondary school Geography teachers and present the methodologies of Modern Geography. We understand that the IBGE acted as an Ideological State Apparatus, ideologically questioning, through improvement courses, the formation of Geography teachers. For this, we deepened the analysis under the predominant themes in the textbook: Cartography and Statistics, Geography Teaching and Didactic Resources and, Economic Geography, together they represent more than 50% of the classes taught in the course. We describe the contents that were taught in classes in order to understand which subjects were most relevant and how they were addressed in the handouts. The results of this research indicate that the Institute played an important role in the training of Geography teachers in Brazil by enabling them to teach classes in an effective and up-to-date manner, while at the same time disseminating the concept that each institution/individual had a specific role. specific, giving society as a stable and harmonious whole, which contributed to mask the political and social reality in Brazil.