Narrative thinking and landscape concept building. Geographical narrative workshop

Abstract

Landscape constitutes a core curricular reference in geography, being the basis of the conceptual structure of this discipline. Travel diaries, biographies and novels are literary documents that allow the meaning of geographical concepts to be contextualized. Narrative thinking scalffold concepts, ideas and analogies related to the landscape. This type of thinking allows an approach to the creations of others, oral and written, and to promote one's own concepts scaffolding, from lived experience and knowledge of places. The didactic approaches where narrative thinking is in close relationship with the landscape are the didactic itineraries and workshops. The narrative workshop in geography is proposed as a space where it is suggested to use narrative texts to analyze, associate and structure geographical content. The scientific experience of the workshop comes from the development of the scientific narrative workshop on a certain topic, which guides the center of interest of the students. In this case, the stories must refer to the landscape, and from this concept it is intend to build other geographical concepts and other concepts related to human values. Dialogue and writing promote narrative thinking and critical thinking.