Teaching geographic information systems (GIS) for understanding territory in university contexts

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https://doi.org/10.5216/ag.v18i1.79004

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The teaching, learning, and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in social sciences and education faculties enhances the intelligibility and holistic understanding of territories by allowing an approach to their systems of objects and actions in time and space. The challenge lies in the fact that university students enrolled in these faculties often lack the prior knowledge necessary to grasp the scope of GIS, compared to their counterparts in exact sciences. This is because GIS generally involves, in addition to mapping, the geo-referencing of entities and the managing complex, relational spatial databases. By examining a case study, this research aims to review the educational teaching process of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in order to understand the territory in the university context of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Education at Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia)

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2024-04-20

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ESPINAL PATIÑO, C.; POSADA PÉREZ, N. M. Teaching geographic information systems (GIS) for understanding territory in university contexts. Ateliê Geográfico Journal, Goiânia, v. 18, n. 1, p. 304–329, 2024. DOI: 10.5216/ag.v18i1.79004. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/atelie/article/view/79004. Acesso em: 17 jul. 2024.

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Dossiê - A Educação Geográfica no contexto Panamericano