Visual Impairment and the Mobilization of Geographic Principles to Read the Relief in Tactile Models: discussions for teacher training in Geography
Students with visual impairments have great difficulties in understanding geomorphological concepts, as they use vision as their main sense of perception. In this context, the article discusses the process of understanding basic concepts about relevance based on tactile models and the mobilization o...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2024 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) |
| Repositorio: | Ensaios de Geografia |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/61994 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.uff.br/ensaios_posgeo/article/view/61994 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Geography teaching Geographic principle Geomorphology Tactile cartography Enseñanza de la Geografía Princípio geográfico Geomorfología Cartografía táctil Ensino de Geografia Geomorfologia Cartografia tátil |
| Sumario: | Students with visual impairments have great difficulties in understanding geomorphological concepts, as they use vision as their main sense of perception. In this context, the article discusses the process of understanding basic concepts about relevance based on tactile models and the mobilization of geographic principles, with a contribution to the process of teacher training in Geography. The qualitative research is framed as a case study in the Geography Degree course at the Institute Federal of Ceará (IFCE) Iguatu campus, based on the preparation and validation of maps and tactile models. The results show that the concepts of height and shape (elevation and depression) were assimilated by the student, however, the concepts that discuss mathematical notions such as altitude, equidistance between contour lines, transposition from 2D to 3D and feature size associations with the scale were not understood, highlighting the importance of tactile cartographic literacy in the process of training students with visual impairments. |
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