Abstract

REIS JUNIOR, Dante F. Costa; SILVA, Barbara Mayanne  and  FIGUEREIDO, Evelyn L. Dias. "Nature of geographical science": diagnosis and possibilities of the insertion of epistemology in geography education in school and teacher training. Ciência educ. [online]. 2018, vol.24, n.1, pp.191-208. ISSN 1980-850X.  https://doi.org/10.1590/1516-731320180010013.

Absent from the discussions about science teaching, Geography continues to transmit to the general public the degrading image of a purely descriptive discipline, with a merely recording role. However, given the nature of its object (the complex interface of natural phenomena and socioeconomic dynamics), it has a remarkable potential for an epistemological type of reading - a fact that should normally give rise to more insightful and elucidating teaching modalities. We present a general diagnosis of the content of current texts on (and for) Geography teaching, highlighting the still minimal incorporation of themes associated with philosophy and the history of science.

Keywords : "NOS" teaching; Epistemology of geography; Geography teaching.

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