INFLUÊNCIAS ESTRANGEIRAS SOBRE O ENSINO BRASILEIRO DA GEOGRAFIA: UM PERCURSO HISTÓRICO DE CORRENTES EDUCACIONAIS

Abstract

This article was prepared with the purpose of reporting some of the main foreign influences that acted and those that still enjoy full functioning in The Brazilian territory, especially in the educational sphere, shaping the country's government plans and actions according to their interests. These interventions from foreign bodies, especially supranational ones, such as the United Nations Educational, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO), World Bank (BM), International Geographical Union – Commission for Geographic Education (UGI-CEG), became present and mainly in underdeveloped or emerging countries, such as the Brazilian case. In this sense, this educational internationality and its changes through critical Geography and Geographic Education in the Brazilian educational context, which were imposed, through agreements signed with foreign institutions, and which promoted changes in geography teaching will be emphasized. Together, the political scenario in which these changes took place will be briefly exposed, which were directed mainly by UNESCO and the World Bank. For these are foreign bodies, active in the educational sphere worldwide, which allied to other organizations have acted in various fields and spheres, especially in the political, which in turn has the power to promote political and administrative changes, according to the ambitions of these organizations.