Abstract

MELO, Patricia Bandeira de  and  MOURA, Tatiane Oliveira de Carvalho. Ethnographic perspective as a proposal for a teaching methodology of sociology. Rev. Port. de Educação [online]. 2017, vol.30, n.1, pp.107-133. ISSN 0871-9187.  https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.7400.

This article presents a didactic mediation model to teaching sociology. This mediation was applied in a public school in São José do Belmonte city, Pernambuco, Brazil, whose aim was the learning through a fieldwork during the Cavalgada à Pedra do Reino Festival. Firstly, students learned concepts as culture, popular culture, festival, popular festival and ethnography, and then they went to the field to observe, defamiliarize and reflect about their social environment, reporting their reflections in ethnographic notebooks. On this ethnographic perspective proposal, students experienced the world as a laboratory, trying to understand sociology. In the didactic mediation, students were considered as critical researchers, protagonists of the teaching-learning process, in which each one has an own narrative. They were immersed in their own social context to understand sociologically what they already knew, but which meanings were restrained in the social structure.

Keywords : Didactic mediation; Sociology teaching; Ethnographic perspective.

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