Abstract

PRADO, Clodoaldo José Bueno do  and  CARNEIRO, Sônia Maria Marchiorato. GEOGRAPHY TEXTBOOKS: A CARTOGRAPHIC LANGUAGE STUDY. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2016, vol.32, n.4, pp.365-389. ISSN 1982-6621.  https://doi.org/10.1590/0102-4698151877.

The article relates a research about Geography textbooks for the last years of primary Brazilian school (6th to 9th years), regarding cartographic language. It is a qualitative assessed documental analysis on the relationship between the maps and the discursive texts and activities, focusing spatial citizenship consciousness. The theoretical referential have assumed Geographic Education as compromised with the citizenship; and the cartographic maps as methodological instruments conveying relations of contents to geographical spatiality. Results have revealed desirable trends of the cartographic contents within the sampled collection, but there remains a lack of improvement as to pedagogical articulation of texts and maps, and of those with activities. In addition, incongruities appear between theory and practice as to the concept of Geography in the Collection: the Teacher´s Guide states a more up-to-date understanding focused on the citizenship development, but student´s textbook shows a traditional informative-descriptive conception.

Keywords : Geographic Education; Spatial citizenship consciousness; Cartographic language; Textbooks..

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