Visualização e representação espaciais no ensino de Geomorfologia

Abstract

VISUALIZATION AND REPRESENTATION OF SPACE IN THE TEACHING OF GEOMORPHOLOGY. Graphic language is an important resource in teaching and learning of Geomorphology contents. Block diagrams, topographical, geological and geomorphological maps and remote sensing images are commonly used as resources. The understanding and use of these resources are one of the skills needed in studies of Geomorphology. Nevertheless, there are difficulties between students with the use of those resources. The difficulties stem from the lack of spatial skills and conceptual representation, which unfold in trouble cartographic and spatial visualization. For a person to perform the identification of landforms on topographic map, he/she must first be able to decode common symbols of the cartographic language and to recognize the ways by which the concepts are represented. Representation and spatial visualization comprise the interaction of various skills and knowledge, which depends from external and internal dimensions inherent for human beings.