La enseñanza de la geografía: un desafío para América Latina

Abstract

 The fruitful combination of efforts between the CEPEIGE and the IPGH support has paved the way for a memorable event this year: the 40th consecutive meeting of the International Course of Applied Geography, attended by people from different countries of America, which took place in Quito. On this occasion, the course, which had usually been reserved for technical issues referred to territorial ordering and applied geography, dealt with issues closer to theory, to the history of geo- graphical thought and to education. The course orientation should be considered as a signal: Latin America is growing towards new political, economic and institution- al horizons and it needs to consolidate its geographical studies this way. To meet this goal it is necessary that geography be developed from its basis. For this reason, it becomes important to cover two fields with continental criteria: the first, deepens on theoretical thought as ground for its application; the second, discusses the teach- ing of geography as a way of rescuing the potential thinking from the new genera- tions. This collective presentation includes abstracts from the research work that the scholars presented in the course mentioned, titled “Education and investigation of Geography facing the new technologies for spatial management”.