Competência leitora e ensino de Geografia

Pós-graduação em Educação - FCT

Pedagogia Anarquista e ensino de Geografia: conquistando cotas de liberdade

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Geographical Literacy, Attitudes, and Experiences of Freshman Students: A Qualitative Study at Florida International University

The purpose of the study was to explore the geography literacy, attitudes and experiences of Florida International University (FIU) freshman students scoring at the low and high ends of a geography literacy survey. The Geography Literacy and ABC Models formed the conceptual framework. Participants were freshman students enrolled in the Finite Math course at FIU. Since it is assumed that students who perform poorly on geography assessments do not have an interest in the subject, testing and interviewing students allowed the researcher to explore the assumption. In Phase I, participants completed the Geography Literacy Survey (GLS) with items taken from the 2010 NAEP Geography Subject Area Assessment. The low 35% and high 20% performers were invited for Phase II, which consisted of semi-structured interviews. A total of 187 students participated in Phase I and 12 in Phase II. The primary research question asked was what are the geography attitudes and experiences of freshman students scoring at the low and high ends of a geographical literacy survey? The students had positive attitudes regardless of how they performed on the GLS. The study included a quantitative sub-question regarding the performance of the students on the GLS. The students’ performance on the GLS was equivalent to the performance of 12th grade students from the NAEP Assessment. There were three qualitative sub-questions from which the following themes were identified: the students’ definition of geography is limited, students recall more out of school experiences with geography, and students find geography valuable. In addition, there were five emergent themes: there is a concern regarding a lack of geographical knowledge, rote memorization of geographical content is overemphasized, geographical concepts are related to other subjects, taking the high school level AP Human Geography course is powerful, and there is a need for real-world applications of geographical knowledge. The researcher offered as suggestions for practice to reposition geography in our schools to avoid misunderstandings, highlight its interconnectedness to other fields, connect the material to real world events/daily decision-making, make research projects meaningful, partner with local geographers, and offer a mandatory geography courses at all educational levels.

Learning through enquiry : making sense of geography in the key stage 3 classroom.

Está destinado al apoyo de los profesores en su desarrollo profesional, pues es una referencia útil para aquellos que quieran conocer temas de investigación en pedagogía geográfica. Aunque los ejemplos se han tomado principalmente de las escuelas de Inglaterra, pueden ser aplicados a las aulas de geografía de todo el mundo. También muestra cómo es el aprendizaje de la geografía promovido por la autora del libro, que favorece la participación activa de los estudiantes, al demostrar la importancia de estimular su curiosidad y promover un comportamiento crítico hacia los datos, y ofrecer, asimismo, oportunidades para qué los propios alumnos busquen nuevas ideas e información y reflexionen sobre lo aprendido.

Global geography : learning through development education at key stage 3.

Este manual, pensado para la etapa tres, aunque también puede aplicarse a la etapa cuatro, es el resultado de la colaboración entre el Development Education Centre (DEC) de Birmingham y la Geographical Association. Está escrito por profesores en ejercicio de educación secundaria y terciaria, que han trabajado en el Development Education Centre y, demuestra por qué y cómo los conceptos y métodos de educación para el desarrollo deben estar al servicio de profesores y alumnos en el estudio de la geografía.

Learning to teach geography in the secondary school : a companion to school experience.

Este recurso ha sido escrito para profesores que están aprendiendo a enseñar geografía en la enseñanza secundaria. No trata sobre el contenido de la geografía, sino que está dedicado a un espíritu de aprendizaje: el aprendizaje, con el fin de enseñar. Totalmente revisado y actualizado tiene en cuenta la nueva legislación y los acontecimientos importantes en la educación de la geografía, incluida la alfabetización, la aritmética, la ciudadanía y los Sistema de Información Geográfica (SIG). Proporciona una orientación esencial en el trabajo de campo y el uso de las TIC en el contexto de la enseñanza de la geografía .

How textbook design may influence learning with geography textbooks

This paper investigates how textbook design may influence students’ visual attention to graphics, photos and text in current geography textbooks. Eye tracking, a visual method of data collection and analysis, was utilised to precisely monitor students’ eye movements while observing geography textbook spreads. In an exploratory study utilising random sampling, the eye movements of 20 students (secondary school students 15–17 years of age and university students 20–24 years of age) were recorded. The research entities were double-page spreads of current German geography textbooks covering an identical topic, taken from five separate textbooks. A two-stage test was developed. Each participant was given the task of first looking at the entire textbook spread to determine what was being explained on the pages. In the second stage, participants solved one of the tasks from the exercise section. Overall, each participant studied five different textbook spreads and completed five set tasks. After the eye tracking study, each participant completed a questionnaire. The results may verify textbook design as one crucial factor for successful knowledge acquisition from textbooks. Based on the eye tracking documentation, learning-related challenges posed by images and complex image-text structures in textbooks are elucidated and related to educational psychology insights and findings from visual communication and textbook analysis.

Cooperation, interaction and learning in local production systems: Evidence in Brazilian firms

In a local production system (LPS), besides external economies, the interaction, cooperation, and learning are indicated by the literature as complementary ways of enhancing the LPS's competitiveness and gains. In Brazil, the greater part of LPSs, mostly composed by small enterprises, displays incipient relationships and low levels of interaction and cooperation among their actors. The size of the participating enterprises itself for specificities that engender organizational constraints, which, in turn, can have a considerable impact on their relationships and learning dynamics. For that reason, it is the purpose of this article to present an analysis of interaction, cooperation, and learning relationships among several types of actors pertaining to an LPS in the farming equipment and machinery sector, bearing in mind the specificities of small enterprises. To this end, the fieldwork carried out in this study aimed at: (i) investigating external and internal knowledge sources conducive to learning and (ii) identifying and analyzing motivating and inhibiting factors related to specificities of small enterprises in order to bring the LPS members closer together and increase their cooperation and interaction. Empirical evidence shows that internal aspects of the enterprises, related to management and infrastructure, can have a strong bearing on their joint actions, interaction and learning processes.

Statistical learning theory for geospatial data. Case study: Aral sea

In recent years there has been an explosive growth in the development of adaptive and data driven methods. One of the efficient and data-driven approaches is based on statistical learning theory (Vapnik 1998). The theory is based on Structural Risk Minimisation (SRM) principle and has a solid statistical background. When applying SRM we are trying not only to reduce training error ? to fit the available data with a model, but also to reduce the complexity of the model and to reduce generalisation error. Many nonlinear learning procedures recently developed in neural networks and statistics can be understood and interpreted in terms of the structural risk minimisation inductive principle. A recent methodology based on SRM is called Support Vector Machines (SVM). At present SLT is still under intensive development and SVM find new areas of application (www.kernel-machines.org). SVM develop robust and non linear data models with excellent generalisation abilities that is very important both for monitoring and forecasting. SVM are extremely good when input space is high dimensional and training data set i not big enough to develop corresponding nonlinear model. Moreover, SVM use only support vectors to derive decision boundaries. It opens a way to sampling optimization, estimation of noise in data, quantification of data redundancy etc. Presentation of SVM for spatially distributed data is given in (Kanevski and Maignan 2004).

La escala de análisis: un tema central en didáctica de la geografía = The scale of analysis a central didactic theme in Geography

Geographical scale is not merely a technical question. The learning of geographical scale goes beyond geometricunderstanding; it implies the etymological comprehension of the concept, the recognition of the importance of scale in theelaboration of the geographical discourse. It implies placing oneself in the centre of the teaching and learning of Geographyand asking oneself, what scale? Why this scale? What progression of scales? The answer to these questions puts in doubtthe scientific discourse that is presently taught in schools especially on the scale of analysis, the sequencing of studiedspaces and the false dichotomy local and global

Teaching primary geography.

Esta guía ayuda a los profesores en período de formación inicial a superar el Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) y a cumplir con la Estrategia Nacional en Enseñanza Primaria. Ofrece resúmenes sobre temas clave de geografía para la etapa de primaria como, el estudio de los lugares, el medio ambiente sostenible, los problemas mundiales y la ciudadanía, así como enfoques interdisciplinares para promover en los niños el conocimiento y aprendizaje de la materia.También, es una guía práctica sobre la planificación, la evaluación y la creación de recursos.

Tomorrow's geography for Edexcel GCSE specification A.

Su contenido cubre las cuatros unidades de la especificación A de Edexcel: habilidades geográficas y desafíos del planeta; el entorno natural y el entorno humano corresponden a las unidades dos y tres y son opcionales; y la unidad cuatro es la investigación en geografía, con la evaluación de control. Permite a los estudiantes aplicar sus conocimientos y habilidades geográficos a algunas de las cuestiones fundamentales a las que se enfrenta el planeta en el siglo XXI.