GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION OF THE LANDSCAPE CONCEPT IN GEOGRAPHY THROUGH DRAWING: Design Manual for Landscape Teaching.
Teaching Geography. Landscape. Drawing. Teaching strategy. Manual.
Findings resulting from professional experience reveal that students of Elementary School have difficulties in assimilating key concepts of Geography, and specifically the one related to the landscape. Based on this antecedent, we defined as a research problem to answer: Is the graphic representation through drawing an effective strategy for the teaching of the landscape concept for 6th grade students? As a general objective we define: Present the proposal of an instructional manual of drawing, containing theoretical and methodological guidelines on the concept of landscape for use in the 6th year of elementary education, which includes aspects of teaching and school learning of this geographical category. The research has contributions in three procedures: the bibliographical research, the documentary analysis and the exploratory research. The bibliographical research tries to give an account of the state of the art about the studies on geographic categories and of analysis, landscape and drawing, taking as reference Santos (1997), Callai (2010), Miranda (2005), Almeida (2014) and Pontuschka; Paganelli; Cacete (2009). The documentary analysis, based on the archives of the Pelópidas de Araújo Municipal School for Early Childhood Education and Primary Education, located in the city of Russas-CE, enabled the organization of information that led to the characterization of the educational institution, and the definition of the profile of the students of this study. The exploratory research, based on the knowledge domain diagnosis, Speech Map, made it possible to validate the design as a strategy for landscape teaching. The data collected by the exploratory research, systematized and analyzed through the content analysis of Bardin (1977), made it possible to verify the potentialities of the drawing, by highlighting the descriptors that make up the conceptual foundation of this geographical category, privileged in the curricular references that guide the national and municipal education. The results allow us to answer affirmatively the proposed research question, by demonstrating the effectiveness of the design strategy as a didactic-pedagogical procedure, which directs us to the elaboration of the "Design Manual for Landscape Teaching" as the final product.