SPATIAL THINKING AND GEOGRAPHIC REASONING: APPROACHES AND DISTANCES

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/signos.v4.73869

Keywords:

geographic situation, spatiality of the phenomenon, Geography teaching

Abstract

This article aims to discuss possible approximations and distances between Spatial Thinking and Geographical Reasoning. Therefore, supporting in the documentary research, we seeked to compare the understandings of Spatial Thinking, present in the Learning to Think Spatially: GIS as a Support System in the K-12 Curriculum (NRC, 2006), and brazilian research dedicated to identifying the components and intellectual movements involved in Geographical Reasoning. We seek a delineation of what is understood by us as Geographical Reasoning. Geographical Reasoning is an exclusive way to thinking about geographic science. We consider that the subject mobilizes this reasoning when operating with the founding concepts of Geography – Scale, Space, Time and Process and the methodological tripod – locating, describing and interpreting, in the interpretation of a given geographic situation. It is through Geographical Reasoning that it is possible to explain why things are where they are, why a given phenomenon happens in a given location, why the same phenomenon happens in a different or similar way in different locations.

Author Biography

Patrícia Assis da Silva, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brasil, patriciaassis.geo@gmail.com

Professora Adjunta da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora - UFJF. Doutora em Geografia pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais - UFMG (2021). Possui graduação (2015) e mestrado (2017) em Geografia pela Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei - UFSJ. Desenvolve pesquisa em Ensino de Geografia, com ênfase no desenvolvimento do raciocínio geográfico e na intepretação de situações geográficas. Atuou na área da cartografia escolar, com foco na cartografia tátil, geração de material didático e práticas pedagógicas. É membro do Grupo de Estudos em Ensino e Pesquisa em Geografia - GEPEGEO, da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Endereço profissional: Campus Universitário, Rua José Lourenço Kelmer, s/n, São Pedro, Juiz de Fora - MG, 36036-900.

E-mail: patriciaassis.geo@gmail.com

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Published

2022-11-29

How to Cite

Assis da Silva, P. (2022). SPATIAL THINKING AND GEOGRAPHIC REASONING: APPROACHES AND DISTANCES. Revista Signos Geográficos, 4, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.5216/signos.v4.73869

Issue

Vol. 4 (2022)

Section

Artigos