The cartography and knowledge in your top news : a view from the higher education of Geography in São Paulo State / A cartografia e seus saberes na atualidade : uma visão a partir do ensino superior de geografia no estado de São Paulo

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

The area of mapping is understood as the basic knowledge of graphic representation of space used to produce the cartographic knowledge and has been taught as subjects in the curricula of geography courses in Brazil. The research looks for to answer the following question: What is the relevance of cartography to the training of professionals and use of geography? The problems identified above, guided our research and our goal to conduct a general analysis of how the knowledge map are effective in the current higher education of geography in the state of São Paulo. The specific objectives are: to characterize the relation enters cartographic knowing in the superior education of Geography and the basic education of Geography; to critically analyze the cartography contents that are taught in the superior courses in Geography; to analyze where measured the professional formation in Geography influence in its way to see and to work knowing with them cartographic in the education of Geography; e to identify to the thematic new necessity and the existence of cartographic that must be gifts in the superior education of Geography. The institutions chosen for the research are the three public state universities and their courses in geography: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) in São Paulo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), in the city of Campinas and Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), in the municipalities of Rio Claro, Presidente Prudente and Ourinhos, totaling in 2006-2008, sixteen teachers. The research was structured in four chapters. In the first chapter, "The Understanding of Cartography in the News and its relation to geography" while looking at the mapping area of knowledge and its relation to geography, weaving between the two approaches fields of knowledge in the development of thinking in each area. In the second chapter "Cartography and the professional training of geography," present a discussion related to the presence of the mapping component of undergraduate courses in curriculum and BA in Geography and contextualizing its presence with the need to collaborate with the training of professionals reflective of Geography. The third chapter, "The Cartographic Knowledge in Building a Cartographic Education" focuses on the characteristics of cartographic knowledge in higher education and basic education and contextualizes the didactic transposition needed to accomplish these skills to our society. The fourth and final chapter, "The Teaching of Cartography in the education and realization of Cartographic Education," discussed based on interviews with teachers and bibliographic references in the role of teachers in mapping training of Geography in actuality and relevance of effective Cartographic Education. It also presents a program of mapping introductory to higher education. The research contributes to understanding the production of cartographic knowledge of geography in higher education and thus contributes to the education space mapping as knowledge relevant to the training of citizens in our society

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cartografia - estudo e ensino cartography higher education geography geografia - estudo e ensino ensino superior - são paulo (estado)

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