A cartografia escolar no processo de ensino-aprendizagem: o hipermapa e sua utilização na educação ambiental, em Quevedos/RS

Abstract

The Geography has as object of analysis the relationship between society and nature and, in this context, environmental issues is strongly marked in its speech. The maps reveal a complex and valuable language for understanding the geographic space. The School Cartography, in the approach of study place, can contribute significantly to the study of environmental issues, specifically the Environmental Education, which brings out the problem: what is the extent that students of Dom Pedro I Basic State School know and identify the environmental problems in your living space? In this sense, this study has the general objective to contribute to geographical studies of School Cartography emphasizing environmental problems Quevedos / RS. To the achievement of the research problem response and to better detail the general objective, the specific objectives are defined as: to know and characterize the reality of the Dom Pedro I Basic State School, focusing on environmental education; to understand the environmental awareness of high school students, as conscious mappers, through the construction of mental maps, stimulating and awakening the creativity; to develop a digital resource for teaching and learning linked to School Cartography (hypermap) that allows a dialogue between the local environmental reality and the theoretical conceptions of environmental education; and to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed resource for the implementation of environmental education in place. The scientific method used was phenomenological and the approach was qualitative and descriptive. Based on the survey results, it is believed that the practices linked to local environmental understanding, as the construction of mental maps, the use of teaching materials aimed at the municipality (hypermap) and systematic reflection and written on their environmental reality, can contribute to the space understanding and temporary truths about the "world" in an articulated way, inter-relational and systemic, allowing a think more reflective and awakening the belonging feeling and the students identity.