SCHOOL CARTOGRAPHY AND THE GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE IN BASIC EDUCATION: some (in)relevant questions

Abstract

This article presents an approach on the (dis) use of the Geographic Scale in High School. We understand that School Cartography is important to guide students to locate in geographic space and also how to explore it, as well as being an important didactic-pedagogical resource to make a critical reading of reality and the phenomena that appear in space. We will also discuss how the teaching of Cartography in High School in the public school can contribute to the familiarization of the Geographic Scale at this level of education, contributing directly and indirectly to the development of a geographic reasoning, allowing a multi-scale reading of the geographic phenomena. Geography is responsible for working with School Cartography in school curricula of Basic Education, thus favoring a direct contact of the students with the cartographic language and its scales, where they can analyze several physical or human phenomena that can either occur in scale on a global scale.