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Chapter 24
Tactile Cartography and Geography Teaching:
LEMADI's Contributions
Carla Cristina Reinaldo Gimenes de Sena and Waldirene Ribeiro do Carmo
Abstract This paper presents an overview of the experiences on Tactile Cartogra-
phy collected at LEMADI (Laboratory of Teaching and Didactic material of the
Geography Department—Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences,
University of S˜o Paulo-USP). This is an attempt at displaying the contributions
of this work to Geography teaching. LEMADI's researchers have been working for
more than 20 years on producing, applying and evaluating geographic representations
for teaching, orientation and mobility. The results from the first project as well as the
materials already produced (maps, graphics, plans, illustrations, models and others)
led to the formation of a permanent group attended by teachers, professionals on
special education and visually disabled students. Experiences were shared by
Brazilian and foreign researchers and institutions. LEMADI became a reference in
Tactile Cartography not only for its tactile didactic materials used by students from
elementary and high schools and college, teachers from public and private schools,
parents, specialized teachers and blind people in general, but mainly for the methods
developed by its researchers.
24.1
Introduction
In 1989, Professor Regina Araujo de Almeida (Vasconcellos) started a pioneering
project at LEMADI in the area of tactile cartography in Brazil. Her research,
“Tactile Map Production and the Visually Disabled: an evaluation of the stages
of production and use of tactile maps” (1993) proposes a new method on Geography
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