The city as a focus of analysis in research in the field of curriculum.

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https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416X.22.074.AO05

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to highlight the contribution of curricular studies in the debate about the relationship between school curriculum and life in the city, with the suppositions that urban territories educate; that city spaces constitute curriculums open to experiences, learning and human development; and that education can become broader and significant when schools conceive of the city as a constituent of curriculum. The study is the result of a review of the state of knowledge about the theme, anchored by a theoretical discussion. The text first presents the result of the evaluation of the state of knowledge to reveal what already exists in scientific production in Brazil about the relationship between curriculum and urban life. We then briefly characterize our theoretical understanding of this relationship. The last section, considering the indications of the first two, identifies possible gaps and research opportunities as challenges for the field of curriculum studies. Among other aspects, the study reveals that there is significant scientific production about the theme, which has been conducted especially by fields of science and knowledge such as geography, architecture, physical education, the history of education and others. The fact that the participation of researchers affiliated to the field of curriculum studies has been low in this production continues to be a great challenge for school education as is the need for their more substantive integration in the curriculum-city relationship.

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Author Biographies

Juares da Silva Thiesen, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)

Graduado em Estudos Sociais e em Geografia pela Universidade do Oeste de Santa Catarina - UNOESC. Mestre em Educação - Ensino Superior pela Fundação Universidade Regional de Blumenau - FURB. Doutor em Ciências Pedagógicas pelo Instituto Central de Ciências Pedagógicas -ICCP - Havana - Cuba/2002 (Revalidação no Brasil pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC) e Doutor em Gestão do Conhecimento pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC (2009). Pós-Doutoramento na Universidade do Minho, Braga/Portugal.

Branca Jurema Ponce, Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUCSP)

Professora Titular da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo – PUC-SP. Graduada em Filosofia pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1975) e em Pedagogia pelas Faculdades Integradas Campos Salles. Mestra (1989) e Doutora (1997) em Educação pela PUCSP, onde é, desde 2004, Professora Titular. 

Published

2022-10-07

How to Cite

da Silva Thiesen, J., & Jurema Ponce, B. (2022). The city as a focus of analysis in research in the field of curriculum . Revista Diálogo Educacional, 22(74). https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416X.22.074.AO05