Popular culture for planning and practice of teachers during the early years of elementary education

Abstract

Postgraduate Program in Education of the State University of Southwest Bahia. The investigation was originated from concerns linked to the popular culture’s approach in the school curriculum and especially in the early years of Elementary School. It is a qualitative research aimed to understand how popular culture is approached in the curriculum documents. In addiction, a semi-structured interview with four teachers reporting their pedagogical practices was used. The results showed that teachers use clever and subtle ways in the development of the curriculum to approach popular culture in their classes, triggering a process of creation and invention in practice. The teachers’ narratives also demonstrate that they introduce didactic devices in the planning of their classes, allowing to generate discussions regarding popular culture and implementing actions such as visits to points of the city that are references, interviews with representatives of the local culture and others avoiding to let this topic to stay on the margins of the curriculum developed at the school.