THE USE OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY, IN REMOTE TIMES

Abstract

The pandemic situation established in 2020 caused the state of Minas Gerais, through the State Department of Education (SEE), to enact the suspension of face-to-face classes in March 2020, which lasted until the second half of 2021, as educational institutions began to operate in a hybrid manner and, sequentially, in person. In this context, education professionals had to adapt to the common use of Information and Communication Technologies and emergency instruments developed by SEE-MG, namely: the Conexão Escola application, the Tutored Study Plans (PET's), and the TV channel "Se liga na educação". In view of this, at José Lourenço de Freitas State School, an attempt was made to supplement the teaching-learning process of students through extracurricular projects, such as the “Em Casa” Photo Contest. It is inferred that the aforementioned sought to reveal the everyday reality, taking into account an appropriate and known space to the students, that is, the domestic space. Therefore, the photographs and descriptions taken by the undergraduates were sent to the Instagram “PIBID-UFV Geografia” (@pibidgeoufv), in which the entries were evaluated and the winners announced. In this sense, it is believed that the rich content of the project has not been fully explored by those involved, so it is necessary to return to the central points of the “Em Casa” Contest and reveal how the photos produced by the José Lourenço de Freitas State School students could come to favor the appropriation of elementary concepts to the teaching of geography, above all, of physical-natural themes.