Geografia Ensino & Pesquisa (Aug 2011)
A importância do mapa no contexto escola
Abstract
Reading a map is more than appreciate its apparent meaning, given the historical background that surrounds determined place and time as its knowhow of planning and constructing it. Reading a map critically implies learning, appreciate, decode and interpret, analyzing both the form and its structure and function. The construction technique infers and interferes in the subject’s reading and understanding,considering mainly the school maps whose contents represent concrete situations at school context. By deciding to provide a map for a readerstudent, the teacher needs to consider the content, form, meaning and the material quality that will be presented, because this decision must enable clarity for the enunciation