Aziz Nacib Ab’sáber Didactic Proposal for Professor Degree Enclosed in the “Brazilian Project for Geography Teaching” (1975)

Geography Teaching Laboratory, Campus of Ourinhos, São Paulo State University (UNESP), Brazil

Abstract: In the 1920s a debate started in Brazil on education and the insertion of a new model of education called New School. Concerning geography teaching, there were the contributions of Carlos Miguel Delgado de Carvalho, Antônio Firmino Proença, João Augusto de Toledo among other professors who expressed their scholastic perspectives, through teaching manuals. The New School movement brought repercussions on the approach of geography teaching at schools. This thought influenced a generation of renowned professors who graduated in Geography and History course at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Sciences (FPSC) at University of São Paulo (USP), among them Aziz Nacib Ab'Sáber. It is highlighted the contribution of Aziz to the geography teaching. The renowned professor graduated in Bachelor’s Degree in geography in 1944, he was a teacher at the then secondary school, before becoming a professor at the Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-SP) and been entitled professor of Physical Geography at USP. In 1975 Aziz produced the didactic collection entitled “Forms of Relief”, whose analysis we endeavor to do. The research is in progress since 2017 from the participation as a technical training fellow, in the project Methodological Guidelines for Geography teachers for the secondary school at São Paulo School (1934-1960). During the research it was possible to contact documentary sources in interviews format granted by the alumni of the course of Geography and History of USP, Aziz Ab'Sáber. Thus, the objective is to understand the didactic proposition of Aziz Nacib Ab'Sáber, on geography teaching in the second degree as it was known at that time, enclosed in the “Brazilian Project for the teaching of geography (1975)”; analyze the set of didactic texts Forms of relief: basic text, teacher’s guide and practical work; and to identify the didactic orientations proposed by the author regarding the selection of contents and teaching methodology of geography.