THE ROLE OF SPATIAL THINKING IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF GEOGRAPHICAL REASONING

Authors

  • Sonia Maria Vanzella Castellar USP
  • Igor Rafael de Paula USP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46789/edugeo.v10i19.922

Abstract

In recent years, spatial thinking has been integrated as a theme to be studied in Brazilian geographic education, which has given us enormous theoretical and methodological responsibility to understand how it can be developed as a skill and how it participates in building geographic reasoning. The studies on spatial thinking (Golledge & Spector, 1978; Liben & Downs, 1989; Tversky, 1981. among others) – before their synthesis on the National Research Council report (2006) – offered us framework to establish a relationship between the coherent fields of knowledge, in the face of Brazilian geography, and our teachers’ and students’ needs, supporting the spatial thinking as a conceptual and procedural knowledge (Zabala, 1999). This concept will be discussed through a dialogue between different epistemic areas and situations, as a possible theoretical and practical contribution to Geographic Education, and by reinforcing the cartographic language, the subjects, their actions, and their places in the world as inherent aspects of the teaching and learning process in Geography.

Keywords

Geography Education, Geographical Reasoning, School Cartography, Geographical Situtation, Cognition

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Published

2020-07-24

How to Cite

Vanzella Castellar, S. M. ., & de Paula, I. R. (2020). THE ROLE OF SPATIAL THINKING IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF GEOGRAPHICAL REASONING. Revista Brasileira De Educação Em Geografia, 10(19), 294–322. https://doi.org/10.46789/edugeo.v10i19.922