Geoartistic journey through Maquine Cave:

report of an interdisciplinary field trip

Abstract

This report presents the experience of the Geo-artistic Trip to Maquine Cave, carried out with first-year students of the New High School at Bernardo Valadares de Vasconcellos State School (Sete Lagoas-MG), as an interdisciplinary proposal between Art and Geography. The activity arose from the need to overcome curricular fragmentation and bring school content closer to the students’ concrete experiences. The methodology was qualitative, based on the teachers’ participant observation, and involved stages of theoretical preparation, field trip, and reflective activities post-visit. The theoretical foundation is based on the conception of education as a complex process, in which interdisciplinarity and field trips broaden understanding and critical formation. As a result, it was found that the interdisciplinary experience strengthened student protagonism, fostering learning and a critical and sensitive reading of the investigated territory.

Keywords: Art; Field class; Geography; Interdisciplinarity.