Primary teacher education

The course provides the basic knowledge of geography and the theoric and practical competences to analyze relations, also in the diachronic perspective, between environment and societies at different scale. Moreover, the course provides conceptual basic tools to geolocalise and understand components and phenomena in their correct spatial and temporal dimensions. Then, the course puts in evidence the link between research and didactics in geography and shows the methodologies and tools finalized to promote a suitable use of geographical interpretive categories in order to know the environmental and anthropic characteristics. The Laboratory has the main aim to provide a series of references and guidelines useful to find and elaborate demographic, social, economic and territorial data in the perspectives of the team working and constructivist-interdisciplinary didactics. At the end of the course the student will be able to read the landscape with a critical approach, recognizing the main physical-morphological forms, the modeling actions that occurred over time, analyzing the anthropic aspects and the relationships established between socio-demographic components and natural elements. The student will have also acquired a basic knowledge of some traditional and innovative tools that allow to develop a laboratory didactics and a cooperative approach, inspired to the research-action and authentic understanding.