Abstract
Reflecting on the initial formation, the work of the teachers and the construction of the geographical knowledge in the Initial Years is of great importance for the understanding of aspects referring to the process of literacy of the students. The present text is part of a research that analyzed the directions given to Geography in the courses of Pedagogy of Federal Universities in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Based on the Pedagogical Course Projects, curricular matrices and menus, the research found that categories of analysis such as: place, landscape, territory and geographic space itself appear eventually in the aforementioned documents. However, it is understood that it is basic, for a critical and reflexive work, for teachers to know the Science of reference and its structuring concepts to understand the relevance of performing their teaching and, therefore, to do it with greater autonomy.
Keywords:
Teaching; Geography; Teacher training; Pedagogy; Early years of elementary Education