School cartography in Brazil and its inclusive perspective

• Autor(a) principal: Reinaldo Gimenes de Sena, Carla Cristina [UNESP]
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Carmo, Waldirene Ribeiro do
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UNESP
• Texto Completo: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23729333.2020.1824565; http://hdl.handle.net/11449/218667
• topic: School Cartography; tactile cartography; inclusion

This article presents an overview of School Cartography in Brazil, demonstrating how academic research in the area has influenced official documents proposed by the Ministry of Education, the teaching of Cartography in Basic Education, and the curricula of undergraduate courses in Geography. The purpose of this study is to understand the role of cartography in the teaching of geography and how learning through maps has contributed more intensively to the formation of Brazilian citizens from the 1990s onward, at the same time that cartography-related content has become more and more present in schools at the primary level in Brazil, and the text discusses this process. It also presents the background of the Tactile Cartography in Brazil, discussing the importance of reflecting the process of adapting graphic/visual representations to tactile representations, in the context of Cartographic Communication and its contribution to the teaching of cartography from an inclusive perspective. RESUME Ce papier presente un panorama de la cartographie scolaire au Bresil et demontre comment la recherche academique dans ce domaine a influence les documents officiels proposes par le ministere de l'education, l'enseignement de la cartographie dans la formation de base et les programmes des cursus de geographie. Les etudes, dont le but est de comprendre le role de la cartographie dans l'enseignement de la geographie et en quoi l'apprentissage a travers les cartes contribue a la formation des citoyens, ont ete plus intensement menees au Bresil a partir des annees 1990. Le papier developpe l'idee que ce processus est contemporain a l'augmentation de l'usage de contenus cartographiques dans l'education de base au Bresil. Le papier presente egalement l'histoire de la cartographie tactile au Bresil et debat sur l'importance de reflechir au processus d'adaptation des representations graphiques et visuelles pour les cartes tactiles dans le contexte de la communication cartographique et sa contribution a l'enseignement de la cartographie dans une perspective inclusive.