Cartography at Elementary School Level: Continuing Education of Teachers and Experiences in the Classroom - Maps for the Future Children Education and Internet - page 67

greatest resource was the textbook”. Those words made me think and see that the course
offered will be - as it was for me - a great new interdisciplinary development applied in
context. Another participant concluded: “Knowing how to read, interpret, analyze and
find one's place in the representation of the Earth, makes the student a human being,
capable of guiding him/herself and defining his/her place (space) ” (Instructor Antonio,

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Navira ´ -MS, 2007)
The difficulty of access to communication equipment via the Internet slowed
down the training courses and resulted in many tutors delivering their reports late.
The difficulty of reporting their experiences during the study group meetings, in
either the face-to-face or long distance mode meetings, was shared with the
instructors from CECEMCA online.
Another differentiating aspect of the training courses concerns the preparation of
the reports by the tutors, and we would like to include some remarks by an educator
from CECEMCA:
Sometimes they were actually reports, they mentioned that they had done a certain activity
in the classroom and (that) sometimes the class had difficulty under-standing (the
content) These results came to us in two ways: reports from the face-to-face meetings

(once a month) and through TelEduc (every week). Thus, most of them were delivered in
person because of the difficulty they had registering and sending them via TelEduc, which
was a little vague. When we went to the face-to-face meetings it was emphasized even
more, with more detail and so (we realized that) not only the students were having
difficulties, but sometimes the instructors—when they were trying to teach the students—
realized that there was something they had not understood. (Educator Rafael, personal
information, 2010)

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The activities developed in the study groups on Thematic Cartography and the
Environment led to the proposal to conduct studies and experiments involving the
group of teachers and their practices in the classroom. To illustrate these activities
we selected one of the practices involving the preparation of a Sketch Map of the
Route from Home to School, which made up part of an account by one of the
teachers participating in the Continuing Education Course at CECEMCA/UNESP.

5.7 Sketch Maps of the Route from Home to School

One activity present in the practices conducted by teachers in training was the
preparation by the pupils themselves of sketch maps and drawings of a space
closely, usually a classroom, but also of other environments such as home, the
home street, the route from home to school, among others.
In Piaget's theoretical systematizations, knowing means organizing, structuring
and explaining reality based on our own experiences. Knowledge is always the
product of the subject's action on the object. Therefore, the operation is the essence
of knowledge: the interiorized action modifies the object of knowledge, imposing
order on space and time.