Didactics of Geography

Course objectives

The course of geography teaching, addressing the main issues concerning the learning / teaching processes of geography, highlights the relationships between research and disciplinary teaching and identifies teaching methodologies and tools able to promote in students an appropriate use of vocabulary and categories interpretations of the discipline in order to be able to understand and contextualise the environmental and anthropological characteristics of the territory. Course topics: geographic skills and the assumptions of the vertical geography curriculum; learning units; teaching practices; direct observation; indirect observation and the tools of geo-graphicity (iconic instruments, literary-linguistic tools, ludiform instruments); space and time; geotechnologies; values in geographic education.

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Program - Frequency - Exams

Course program
Course topics: geographic skills and the assumptions of the vertical geography curriculum; learning units; teaching practices; direct observation; indirect observation and the tools of geo-graphicity (iconic instruments, literary-linguistic tools, ludiform instruments); space and time; geotechnologies; values in geographic education.
Prerequisites
Background knowledge of general geography, human geography, general cartography
Books
G. De Vecchis, D. Pasquinelli d'Allegra, C. Pesaresi, Didattica della geografia, Utet, 2020. M. De Filpo, Un'introduzione alla cartografia, Roma, Nuova Cultura, 2017. G. De Vecchis - R. Morri, Disegnare il mondo, Scuolafacendo Carocci, 2023. R. Morri (a cura di), Viaggio nella scuola d’Italia, Società Geografica Italiana, 2023. R. Morri, Pratiche di public geography, Bologna, Pàtron, 2020. For students who take the exam as a single course or who have not taken other geography exams (ssd M-GGR / 01): Gino De Vecchis, Edoardo Boria, Manuale di geografia, Carocci, 2022 G. De Vecchis, C. Giorda (a cura di), La Carta Internazionale sull'Educazione Geografica, Carocci, Roma, 2018 (pp. 5-26 e pp. 71-118) Unattended students: it is advisable to integrate the texts in the exam program with the contents available on the University e-learning platform: https://elearning.uniroma1.it/course/view.php?id=10856
Exam mode
During the course, the student will be asked to create didactic learning units and / or to simulate lessons (frontal, flipped classroom, circletime, etc.). The final exam consists of a quiz with both open and closed questions, including one / two questions aimed at ascertaining the knowledge and skills of general cartography, to be carried out in 60 minutes.
Lesson mode
Lessons will take place in person
  • Lesson code1025155
  • Academic year2024/2025
  • CourseTerritory's management and enhancement
  • CurriculumTeorico-didattico
  • Year2nd year
  • Semester1st semester
  • SSDM-GGR/01
  • CFU6
  • Subject areaDiscipline geografiche, geologiche e dell'ambiente