A cartografia nos anos finais do ensino fundamental : os desafios das professoras e dos professores das escolas públicas de Erechim-RS

Abstract

The use of Cartography in the teaching of Geography is indispensable so that the students can develop to the construction of the geographic knowledge and consequently to improve and enrich the teaching of the Geography and also so that it develops the capacity to understand the space, therefore the process of language teaching Is important since the beginning of schooling. The development of this language allows the student to develop the ability to read and use maps through symbology, starting from their living space so that afterwards they acquire skills and perceptions regarding both the reading of the geographical space and its representation as a whole. However, in our research, we verified that the teaching of Cartography in elementary school is insufficient. We perceive the difficulty that the student has in representing the space and interpreting a map beyond the location exercise, and at the same time the teachers also have difficulties to work with the teaching of cartography. The objective of this work was to identify the teaching strategies and difficulties, regarding the teaching of Cartography in Elementary School of the public schools located in Erechim-RS. For the development of the research selecting 15 schools in the public network of Erechim, based on the choice of schools the IDEB grade of 2015, then we organized a questionnaire related to the content and daily Cartography in schools and interviewed 15 teachers. Before the analysis of interviews, school experiences and internship experiences, we identified that the process of academic training of teachers, is the factor that determines the difficulties in teaching and learning Cartography, the training they obtained is not enough to build the knowledge necessary for the Educational practice of cartographic language in the final years of basic education.