Geographical Reasoning and Learning Perspectives on Curriculum and Cartography from South America

This book presents the distinctive theoretical and methodological approaches in geography education in South America and more specifically in Brazil, Chile and Colombia. It highlights cartography and maps as essential tools and provides a meaningful approach to learning in geographical education, th...

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Other Authors: Vanzella Castellar, Sonia Maria (Editor), Garrido-Pereira, Marcelo (Editor), Moreno Lache, Nubia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2021, 2021
Edition:1st ed. 2021
Series:International Perspectives on Geographical Education
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This book presents the distinctive theoretical and methodological approaches in geography education in South America and more specifically in Brazil, Chile and Colombia. It highlights cartography and maps as essential tools and provides a meaningful approach to learning in geographical education, thereby giving children and young people the opportunity to better understand their situations, contexts and social conditions. The book describes how South American countries organize their scholar curriculum and the ways in which they deal with geography vocabulary and developing fundamental concepts, methodologies, epistemological comprehension on categories, keywords and themes in geography. It also describes its use in teachers’ practices and learning progressions, the use of spatial representations as a potent mean to visualize and solve questions, and harnesses spatial thinking and geographical reasoning development. The book helps to improve teaching and learning practices in primary and secondary education and as such it provides an interesting read for researchers, students, and teachers of geography and social studies
Physical Description:VI, 375 p. 69 illus., 49 illus. in color online resource
ISBN:9783030798475