Pierre Monbeig, Aroldo de Azevedo and Maria Conceição Vicente de Carvalho Proposed the Geography Curriculum of the Secondary School (1935) 

Márcia Cristina de Oliveira Mello, and João Luiz Cuani Junior 

Universidade Estadual Paulista “Julio de Mesquita Filho” campus Ourinhos, Brazil 

Abstract: This set of themes approaches the curriculum on 1930 secondary school geography teaching. It is highlighted henceforth the influence of Pierre Monbeig, Aroldo de Azevedo and Maria Conceição Vicente de Carvalho who elaborated a project on a program for the geography teaching at the time. It is a documentation and bibliographical research in development through localization and analysis of documentary sources, among them the text “The secondary school education on geography”, published in the year of 1935, in the magazine Geography. It is highlighted herewith the context in which the proposal was produced, as well as the authors contribution to the organization of the geography curriculum for secondary school. The proposed geography curriculum considered the assumptions of the New School, valuing the psychological and methodological aspects of learning. This model of curriculum, in turn, was articulated with the model of teacher education in geography at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters (FPSL) at the University of São Paulo (USP) and was discussed at Brazilian Geographers Association (BGA). From the 1930s on, Brazil is submitted to a specific economic logic, giving priority to an implantation of the urban-industrial logic. After the revolution of 1930, changes occurred in relation to educational needs. Getúlio Vargas regime created the Ministry of Education and Public Health, whose first minister was Francisco Campos, who — among others measures — created the FPSL, where secondary school teachers were trained. The pedagogical training was given at the Education Institute at USP where they taught subjects such as General Didactics, Special Didactics, Educational Psychology, School Administration, Biological Fundamentals of Education and Sociological Foundations of Education. Therefore, the student acquired a scientific background in the area of activity and then obtained a pedagogical training. The formation of the secondary school teacher in charge of the Education Institute was to take place in the scheme known as three plus one. This course inaugurated a tradition in the formation of geography teachers which in turn brought changes to the curriculum of geography at Brazilian school. From a didactic exposition and among the tutorials were the incentives to topographical map readings, geographic excursions, inclusion of social and economic aspects on geographic themes. 

Key words: geography teaching, geography curriculum, didactics of geography