É muito difícil você ver uma carroça no centro da cidade: crianças de Juiz de Fora (MG) e suas representações de cidade e campo

Abstract

Understanding rural area and urban area, with singular realities and categories but not dissociable, is the focus in this research with the representation of these concepts by children, between 8 years old and 12 years old, from. Juiz de Fora - MG with considerable urban experience. The interest in this issue comes from childhood stories and gained a new direction with a study realized in the final semester of Geography in 2004. The present work is built according to qualitative investigation and aims to know the rural area and urban area representations of the 12 children participants through drawings and speeches, wishing to notice the conceptions that are subjacent. This investigation is based on Milton Santos, Paulo Freire, Rafael Straforini e Helena Coppetti Callai theories to argument that geography has a social role assistance in place/world reading. If rural area and urban area are not independent places, I argue that they need to be thought in the education field because of the complex relation between them.