Conceptions of 8th and 9th-grade elementary school students about the ideal city: connections with the actual city

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https://doi.org/10.5216/ag.v20i1.83394

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What is an ideal city? What this city should have? These questions were asked to the 8th and 9th-grade students from a peripheral school in Erechim-RS. This study aimed to analyze the students' understanding of their ideal city. We asked the students to draw and/or write about what they idealize in a city to understand their perspectives. We collected fourteen drawings and writings in total, which were categorized based on the criteria of semiotic analysis (Rodrigues, 2021). Three categories emerged from them: nature/Leisure, Consumption/Fun, and Culture. The research is qualitative and uses a bibliographic approach. The interpretive method supporting the analysis was based on the principles of critical-hermeneutic theory. The drawings reveal that the students' idealization of a city is linked to their actual needs in their neighborhood and to ideals of consumption, which are often far from their social reality.

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2026-04-20

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DEON, A. R.; COPETTI CALLAI, H. Conceptions of 8th and 9th-grade elementary school students about the ideal city: connections with the actual city. Ateliê Geográfico Journal, v. 20, n. 1, p. 323–345, 20 Apr.2026.