TOURISM AND EDUCATION: TOURISM IN THE INITIAL YEARS OF ELEMENTARY EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF FORTALEZA IN THE STATE OF CEARÁ

Abstract

The study defends solutions via education for a better understanding of tourism in the use of territories, a use that must go through the management. It presents seven aspects of management, among which it assesses tourism planning, reflects on the tourist territory, and seeks to perceive learning strategies so that the learner can understand tourism in the use of territories from an early age, bearing in mind the subjects understanding of belonging to this to-called tourist destination. It presents research with a qualitative approach, evidencing institutional pedagogical support material, as educational resources about tourism in the initial years of elementary education. Out of ninety resources, reference to tourism was found in only eight. Education in tourism is still incipient, with no discussion about the identity of the place. No attention was given to teaching tourism with family and social life, work, leisure or science in some schools in the Municipality of Fortaleza in the State of Ceará. A dilemma was seen regarding the consent of the tourism phenomenon, its planning, and territorial planning actions, due to the lack of interest in the subject of tourism. Education is therefore seen as safeguarding of the proposals of greater awareness of the tourism actors, for a better understanding of mature use of the territory by the tourism phenomenon.