TEACHING AND LEARNING IN GEOGRAPHY AND THE STUDENTS’ MOTIVES: THE BET OF/ON THE PLACE - DOI 10.5216/bgg.v35i1.35491

Abstract

This article has the objective to promote a discussion about the student’s motives, from “their place”, as a “bet” to potentiate the teaching and learning process in Geography. With that, it becomes pertinent to analyze how the teacher, Geography and education can contribute with the formation of conscientious and critical citizens, which are capable of transiting amongst the concepts and geographical approaches that represent the contemporary transformations. To that end, it is worth mentioning that the category place has been constituting itself in a rich tool for the teaching of Geography, because it is obvious that the local reality relates itself with the global context, and that should be addressed in an encompassing way during the entirety of schooling.The interest in addressing the place as didactic mediation in the teaching and learning process in Geography emerges from the understanding that it is possible, from the study of that category of analysis, to dimension the concreteness of the world on the place, to find the global elements on the place. To establish the relationships of the near with the distant can lead the student to elaborate new questions about being and standing in the world.
Key words: teaching-learning in Geography, motivation, motives, place.