Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: RITA DÁCIO FALCÃO

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STUDENT : RITA DÁCIO FALCÃO
DATE: 01/12/2025
TIME: 19:00
LOCAL: Google Meet
TITLE:

School Geography on the perceived and lived border in the twin municipalities of the
Alto Solimoes Transfrontier Territory (TTAS), between Brazil, Colombia and Peru

KEY WORDS:

Cross-border Territory. Alto Solimões. School and University Geography. Twin Cities.

PAGES: 100
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUMMARY:

The aforementioned research, conducted in the state of Amazonas, more precisely in the Alto
Solimoes microregion, comprises nine municipalities (Amatura, Atalaia do Norte, Benjamin
Constant, Santo Antonio do Ica, Sao Paulo de Olivenca, Tabatinga, and Tonantins), will
investigate school geography on the border as perceived and experienced in the twin
municipalities of the Alto Solimoes Transboundary Territory (TTAS), between Brazil,
Colombia, and Peru. All nine municipalities are part of the so-called "Border Strip."
Geographical science is undergoing a series of changes regarding analytical methods and the
relationships established within geographic space. We know that educational policies
influence the economic, social, and political contexts of different historical and cultural times
and spaces, and in this regard, they arouse the interests of dominant groups in selecting,
organizing, and guiding the population's cognitive and cultural content. Geography, as a
science and discipline studied at various levels of institutionalized education, has been
consolidating and demonstrating its importance in the life and history of countries. We are
aware that schools have a strong influence on the ideological formation and lifestyle of
citizens. This leads us to question the extent to which school and university geography is

developed and applied on borders, the extent to which it influences cross-border relations, and
the extent to which it is imbued with the dominant ideology of the state. States determine
educational policies within their own countries, thus ingraining ideologies from the earliest
school years. The main objective of this thesis is to identify, within the specificities of the
different political, economic, and social contexts of each of the aforementioned countries,
what the current mission of geography in universities and teaching in schools is, and how this
is reflected as a perceived and experienced border for those who experience school geography
in the "Upper Solimoes" Cross-Border Territory (TTAS). The proposed work involves two
research phases: the first involves a comparative historical-social analysis of Geography as a
school subject in the countries where the research is focused. The second involves
understanding how these teachings are reflected as a border experienced and perceived by the
subjects in their daily school lives. It is important to highlight that the "Upper Solimoes"
Transboundary Territory (TTAS) of this research project will only involve the twin
municipalities located between Brazil, Colombia, and Peru, belonging to the Upper Solimoes
Microregion.

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