(Ap)prendre la géographie par les sentiments 

Abstract

This study considers how to introduce an emotional geography to children and pupils. Fictional children’s literature is used as object and support preferred to propose such learning (in primary school level, at the time sense of geographicity is in full development,). Firstly, this text submits a theoretical framework. Under this, emotions are based on feelings (and sentiments) that appear as the most interesting to reveal and to study. Secondly, a practical process to investigate geographic emotions with children’s literature is proposed. The main purpose of this paper is to offer a set of concretes activities for a field work within the school curriculum or in extracurricular activities. A fiction’s corpus (in particular a picture book) about migration and exile’s experiences is taken as an example to literary and geographical works. A range of exile’s emotions (sadness, surprise, peace, security, happiness) is identified.

Keywords

• Emotion
• Feeling
• Geography’s learning
• Children’s Literature
• Exil