Mediated visit (formative trip) from the perspective of education in the city: Some theoretical and methodological aspects

Abstract

The article addresses methodological aspects necessary for the elaboration of mediated visit itineraries to spaces in the city. These scripts are part of a proposal for training teachers of basic education, in the area of ??teaching Humanities, systematized by a research group that defends the concept of Education in the City, linked to the Federal Institute of Espírito Santo (IFES-BRAZIL). Its objective is to explain the various stages and procedures developed for the production of scripts, metaphorically called by the group “formative journey”. Based on Lefebvrian assumptions, it shows that the production of mediated visit itineraries involves six distinct but articulated stages, which require the adoption of different data production techniques (photography, documentary record, interview, maps, ...). For this, it uses three examples of itineraries from research carried out in cities in Espirito Santo-Brazil. Through the data, it shows that the proposal of a mediated visit or "training trip" has the potential to reveal conflicts and contradictions that mark and constitute the urban space. Giving visibility to these elements in the teacher training process requires the displacement of physical morphology to social space; overcoming a naturalizing and harmonious social vision to an emphasis on conflicts and contradictions; in addition to identifying the marks of pain and suffering that social contradictions impose. In this way, the research group understands that through mediated visit itineraries it is possible to establish conditions to look at the urban space from other angles and provide critical elements for the elaboration of other ways of organizin teaching in the Humanities area.