CITY SPACE AND PLACE OF RESIDENCE FROM THE EYES OF CHILDREN FROM PRAHA - KUNRATICE ABSTRACT The aim of this thesis is to capture children's perception of the place of residence and the way they use it. The actual research has been done based on introduced cognitive processes during childhood, took place in Praha - Kunratice and there were several quantitative methods of investigation used. Using the participating and non-participating observation confirmed the assumption that children in their place of residence engage in activities away from their home. The half-stuctured interviews with selected target groups and mental maps creating followed. The child participants were sketching their ideas about the surroundings of their home. There opinions were thereafter clarified in the discussion. The analysis of the mental maps was done by comparison of age and tender.

Master of Science / The objective of this research is to employ Geographical Information Systems to fisheries management in the Mekong River Basin. The study uses artisanal fisheries practices in Khong district, Champasack province Lao PDR as a case study. The research focuses on integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge in fisheries management; how local communities use indigenous knowledge to access and manage their fish conservation zones; and the contribution of scientific knowledge to fishery co-management practices at village level. Specific attention is paid to how GIS can aid the integration of these two knowledge systems into a sustainable management system for fisheries resources. Fieldwork was conducted in three villages in the Khong district, Champasack province and Catch per Unit of Effort / hydro-acoustic data collected by the Living Aquatic Resources Research Centre was used to analyse and look at the differences and/or similarities between indigenous and scientific knowledge which can supplement each other and be used for small scale fisheries management. The results show that GIS has the potential not only for data storage and visualisation, but also as a tool to combine scientific and indigenous knowledge in digital maps. Integrating indigenous knowledge into a GIS framework can strengthen indigenous nowledge, from un processed data to information that scientists and decision-makers can easily access and use as a supplement to scientific knowledge in aquatic resource decision-making and planning across different levels. The results show that when scientific and indigenous knowledge are both stored digitally in GIS databases, a variety of analysis can be done. Multiple layers or visualising functions in ArcGIS are an example of ways in which indigenous and scientific knowledge can be combined in GIS. Maps of deep pools and important fishing grounds gathered using GPS and indigenous knowledge provide base maps of aquatic resources in the study area. The attribute table associated with the map links characteristics of each point, including fishing gear and species found in each pool as well as spawning grounds and migration periods. This information is useful for management and planning purposes. This research illustrates that mental maps and GIS digital maps can be used for fisheries management at different levels. Where mental maps are suitable for communicating with the local community and have the potential for use in fisheries co-management in small-scale fisheries; GIS may be appropriated for data storage and analysis at provincial and national levels, it can be used as a communication tool amongst stakeholders to monitor and understand the aquatic environment.

Master of Science / The objective of this research is to employ Geographical Information Systems to fisheries management in the Mekong River Basin. The study uses artisanal fisheries practices in Khong district, Champasack province Lao PDR as a case study. The research focuses on integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge in fisheries management; how local communities use indigenous knowledge to access and manage their fish conservation zones; and the contribution of scientific knowledge to fishery co-management practices at village level. Specific attention is paid to how GIS can aid the integration of these two knowledge systems into a sustainable management system for fisheries resources. Fieldwork was conducted in three villages in the Khong district, Champasack province and Catch per Unit of Effort / hydro-acoustic data collected by the Living Aquatic Resources Research Centre was used to analyse and look at the differences and/or similarities between indigenous and scientific knowledge which can supplement each other and be used for small scale fisheries management. The results show that GIS has the potential not only for data storage and visualisation, but also as a tool to combine scientific and indigenous knowledge in digital maps. Integrating indigenous knowledge into a GIS framework can strengthen indigenous nowledge, from un processed data to information that scientists and decision-makers can easily access and use as a supplement to scientific knowledge in aquatic resource decision-making and planning across different levels. The results show that when scientific and indigenous knowledge are both stored digitally in GIS databases, a variety of analysis can be done. Multiple layers or visualising functions in ArcGIS are an example of ways in which indigenous and scientific knowledge can be combined in GIS. Maps of deep pools and important fishing grounds gathered using GPS and indigenous knowledge provide base maps of aquatic resources in the study area. The attribute table associated with the map links characteristics of each point, including fishing gear and species found in each pool as well as spawning grounds and migration periods. This information is useful for management and planning purposes. This research illustrates that mental maps and GIS digital maps can be used for fisheries management at different levels. Where mental maps are suitable for communicating with the local community and have the potential for use in fisheries co-management in small-scale fisheries; GIS may be appropriated for data storage and analysis at provincial and national levels, it can be used as a communication tool amongst stakeholders to monitor and understand the aquatic environment.

Submitted by Edileide Reis (leyde-landy@hotmail.com) on 2013-04-25T12:12:59Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Helmut Schwarzelmuller.pdf: 1627195 bytes, checksum: 97b249042daa21914e949bc4e782b7ca (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Maria Auxiliadora Lopes(silopes@ufba.br) on 2013-05-16T18:05:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Helmut Schwarzelmuller.pdf: 1627195 bytes, checksum: 97b249042daa21914e949bc4e782b7ca (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-05-16T18:05:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Helmut Schwarzelmuller.pdf: 1627195 bytes, checksum: 97b249042daa21914e949bc4e782b7ca (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Este trabalho analisa algumas possibilidades referentes ao uso das imagens na construção do conhecimento em Geografia, entendidas como mediação do processo de interpretação e compreensão da realidade socioespacial. Para isso, assumimos o espaço urbano, mais especificamente o Subúrbio Ferroviário de Salvador, como espaço de aprendizagem, no qual se esenvolveu os registros das percepções ambientais aliados ao espaço da sala de aula, local por excelência para o desenvolvimento das aprendizagens teórico-conceituais que simultaneamente foram confrontados com os dados coletados e os saberes produzidos no espaço urbano. O objetivo estabelecido pela pesquisa foi compreender como os aprendentes constroem/aproximam-se do conceitual da ciência geográfica a partir de exercícios que estimulassem a percepção ambiental urbana elaboração/produção de imagens sobre a cidade aliadas às narrativas verbal-escrita. O referencial teórico conceitual foi organizado a partir da fenomenologia, da Geografia Humanística, nas suas perspectivas culturalistas. Quanto aos procedimentos de pesquisa, foram priorizados aqueles que caracterizam as Ciências Humanas nas suas abordagens qualitativas, das pesquisas etnográficas centradas na análise do cotidiano escolar, no estudo do meio, na descrição e contextualização dos fenômenos espaciais, na elaboração de mapas mentais, leitura e interpretação de imagens, além da construção de narrativas nas quais os autores descrevem suas produções. A análise proposta pela pesquisa permitiu compreender como se desenvolve o processo de percepção ambiental urbana e como os aprendentes constroem/aproximam-se dos conceitos fundadores da ciência geográfica; lugar, paisagem e espaço social ao elaborar novos esquemas cognitivos. / Salvador

No município de Caraá, localiza-se a Área de Proteção Ambiental do Caraá (APA), representando 30% da área total do município. Nessa área, localiza-se a cascata e a nascente do Rio dos Sinos. Apesar de ser uma APA, existem conflitos em sua gestão, principalmente com o uso e manejo do solo. A legislação foi implementada sem um adequado processo de Educação Ambiental. O conhecimento da percepção ambiental da população desse município em relação à APA de Caraá é essencial para o desenvolvimento de programas de gestão e Educação Ambiental para a garantia da conservação desta. Assim, a presente tese tem como objetivo central compreender a percepção ambiental dos moradores locais, em relação à APA de Caraá, a fim de analisar os conflitos de uso da APA, confrontando com os critérios de uso estabelecidos pelos gestores da área e assim verificar se os conflitos, quanto ao uso da APA, decorrem de esta ter sido criada sem a participação da comunidade e desvinculada da Educação Ambiental. Considerando a abordagem da pesquisa qualitativa e quantitativa, com caráter exploratório-descritivo, o presente estudo foi dividido em duas grandes etapas. Primeira: caracterização ambiental da área de estudo; Segunda: caracterização da percepção ambiental dos moradores próximos à APA de Caraá, com ênfase na topofilia e topofobia, através dos seguintes instrumentos: entrevistas semiestruturadas e mapas mentais. Foram realizadas entrevistas com: cem moradores; o cacique da tribo Mbya Guaranis, bem como os professores (dezessete professores) e alunos das séries finais, da quinta à oitava série do ensino fundamental, das escolas participantes desse estudo (total de cem alunos). Para investigar a percepção, a topofilia e a topofobia e considerar qual o significado da APA do Caraá para seus moradores, foi realizado o mapa mental com três moradores entrevistados, de cada uma das comunidades citadas, tendo um total de trinta mapas; com os alunos e professores participantes desse estudo, bem como com cinco índios da tribo Mbya Guaranis. A metodologia de interpretação dos mapas mentais foi feita a partir das orientações de Kozel, de forma adaptada. Foram produzidos 144 mapas mentais, distribuídos nas cinco subcategorias criadas: Landmarks (com ou sem expressões linguísticas); Landmarks e Cascata (com ou sem expressões linguísticas); Landmarks, cascata e Antropismo (com ou sem expressões linguísticas); Landmarks e Antropismo (com ou sem expressões linguísticas) e Landmarks e Antropismo Negativo (com ou sem expressões linguísticas). A partir dos mapas mentais complementados através das entrevistas, foi construída a percepção ambiental dos moradores locais, em relação à APA de Caraá, revelando, em sua maioria, aspectos topofílicos para com a área da cascata do Rio dos Sinos (parte da APA) e aspectos topofílicos e topofóbicos para com o “lugar-vivido” (dentro ou próximo da APA). Os moradores não conhecem os critérios de uso e restrições da APA, o que demonstra a falta de envolvimento da comunidade na elaboração destes. Os conflitos quanto ao uso da APA decorrem principalmente do fato desta ter sido implantada sem um processo de Educação Ambiental adequado, sem a participação da comunidade local. / In the Caraa municipality there is the Environmental Protection Area (EPA), representing 30% of the total area in the municipality. In this area there is the waterfall and the source of Sinos River. Despite being the EPA, there are conflicts in its management, mainly due to the use and soil management. The legislation has been implemented without a suitable environmental educational process. The environmental perception knowledge in the population of such municipality in relation to the Caraa EPA is essential to the development of management programs in the Environmental Education to the guarantee of its conservation. Thus, this very thesis has as its main goal to understand the environmental perception of local residents in relation to Caraa’s EPA, in order to analyze the EPA conflicts of usage, confronting the established criteria usage by the managers in the area and hence verifying if the conflicts with the EPA usage are due to it had been created without the community participation and untied from the Environmental Education. Considering the qualitative and quantitative research approach, with exploitative descriptive character such study has been divided and two large phases: 1st Environmental characterization in the study area and 2nd Characterization of the environmental perception of the near residents of the Caraa’s EPA, with emphasis in the topofilia* and Topophobia through these instruments: Semi-structured interviews and mental maps. 100 interviews with residents have been made, the Mbya Guaranis chieftain tribe, as well as the teachers (17 of them) and junior-high school students- from 5th to 8th grades of junior-high schools form the participant schools in this study (total of 100 students). To investigate the perception, the topofilia and Topophobia and consider what the meaning of the Caraa’s EPA is for the its residents, central maps have been made with three residents from the mentioned communities, having a total of 30 maps; with participant students and teachers in such study, as well as 5 Indians from the Mbya Guaranis tribe. The central maps interpretation methodology has been done through Kozel’s orientations in an adapted way. 144 mental maps have been produced and distributed under 5 subcategories made: Landmarks (with or without linguistic expressions); Landmarks and Waterfall (with or without linguistic expressions), Landmarks, Waterfall and Settlement (with or without linguistic expressions) and Landmarks and negative Settlement (with or without linguistic expressions). Throughout the mental maps complemented through interviews residents environmental perception in relation of the Caraa’s EPA has been built, revealing in its majority, topofilia aspects in relation to the waterfall area in the Rio dos Sinos (part of the EPA) and the topofilia ones and Topophobic ones to the “lived place” (inside or near the EPA). The residents are not aware of the criteria of the use and restrictions of the EPA which shows the lack of community involvement in the elaboration of it. The conflicts due to the usage of the EPA are mainly related to the fact of it had been implanted without an adequate environmental education process, with the local community participation.

No município de Caraá, localiza-se a Área de Proteção Ambiental do Caraá (APA), representando 30% da área total do município. Nessa área, localiza-se a cascata e a nascente do Rio dos Sinos. Apesar de ser uma APA, existem conflitos em sua gestão, principalmente com o uso e manejo do solo. A legislação foi implementada sem um adequado processo de Educação Ambiental. O conhecimento da percepção ambiental da população desse município em relação à APA de Caraá é essencial para o desenvolvimento de programas de gestão e Educação Ambiental para a garantia da conservação desta. Assim, a presente tese tem como objetivo central compreender a percepção ambiental dos moradores locais, em relação à APA de Caraá, a fim de analisar os conflitos de uso da APA, confrontando com os critérios de uso estabelecidos pelos gestores da área e assim verificar se os conflitos, quanto ao uso da APA, decorrem de esta ter sido criada sem a participação da comunidade e desvinculada da Educação Ambiental. Considerando a abordagem da pesquisa qualitativa e quantitativa, com caráter exploratório-descritivo, o presente estudo foi dividido em duas grandes etapas. Primeira: caracterização ambiental da área de estudo; Segunda: caracterização da percepção ambiental dos moradores próximos à APA de Caraá, com ênfase na topofilia e topofobia, através dos seguintes instrumentos: entrevistas semiestruturadas e mapas mentais. Foram realizadas entrevistas com: cem moradores; o cacique da tribo Mbya Guaranis, bem como os professores (dezessete professores) e alunos das séries finais, da quinta à oitava série do ensino fundamental, das escolas participantes desse estudo (total de cem alunos). Para investigar a percepção, a topofilia e a topofobia e considerar qual o significado da APA do Caraá para seus moradores, foi realizado o mapa mental com três moradores entrevistados, de cada uma das comunidades citadas, tendo um total de trinta mapas; com os alunos e professores participantes desse estudo, bem como com cinco índios da tribo Mbya Guaranis. A metodologia de interpretação dos mapas mentais foi feita a partir das orientações de Kozel, de forma adaptada. Foram produzidos 144 mapas mentais, distribuídos nas cinco subcategorias criadas: Landmarks (com ou sem expressões linguísticas); Landmarks e Cascata (com ou sem expressões linguísticas); Landmarks, cascata e Antropismo (com ou sem expressões linguísticas); Landmarks e Antropismo (com ou sem expressões linguísticas) e Landmarks e Antropismo Negativo (com ou sem expressões linguísticas). A partir dos mapas mentais complementados através das entrevistas, foi construída a percepção ambiental dos moradores locais, em relação à APA de Caraá, revelando, em sua maioria, aspectos topofílicos para com a área da cascata do Rio dos Sinos (parte da APA) e aspectos topofílicos e topofóbicos para com o “lugar-vivido” (dentro ou próximo da APA). Os moradores não conhecem os critérios de uso e restrições da APA, o que demonstra a falta de envolvimento da comunidade na elaboração destes. Os conflitos quanto ao uso da APA decorrem principalmente do fato desta ter sido implantada sem um processo de Educação Ambiental adequado, sem a participação da comunidade local. / In the Caraa municipality there is the Environmental Protection Area (EPA), representing 30% of the total area in the municipality. In this area there is the waterfall and the source of Sinos River. Despite being the EPA, there are conflicts in its management, mainly due to the use and soil management. The legislation has been implemented without a suitable environmental educational process. The environmental perception knowledge in the population of such municipality in relation to the Caraa EPA is essential to the development of management programs in the Environmental Education to the guarantee of its conservation. Thus, this very thesis has as its main goal to understand the environmental perception of local residents in relation to Caraa’s EPA, in order to analyze the EPA conflicts of usage, confronting the established criteria usage by the managers in the area and hence verifying if the conflicts with the EPA usage are due to it had been created without the community participation and untied from the Environmental Education. Considering the qualitative and quantitative research approach, with exploitative descriptive character such study has been divided and two large phases: 1st Environmental characterization in the study area and 2nd Characterization of the environmental perception of the near residents of the Caraa’s EPA, with emphasis in the topofilia* and Topophobia through these instruments: Semi-structured interviews and mental maps. 100 interviews with residents have been made, the Mbya Guaranis chieftain tribe, as well as the teachers (17 of them) and junior-high school students- from 5th to 8th grades of junior-high schools form the participant schools in this study (total of 100 students). To investigate the perception, the topofilia and Topophobia and consider what the meaning of the Caraa’s EPA is for the its residents, central maps have been made with three residents from the mentioned communities, having a total of 30 maps; with participant students and teachers in such study, as well as 5 Indians from the Mbya Guaranis tribe. The central maps interpretation methodology has been done through Kozel’s orientations in an adapted way. 144 mental maps have been produced and distributed under 5 subcategories made: Landmarks (with or without linguistic expressions); Landmarks and Waterfall (with or without linguistic expressions), Landmarks, Waterfall and Settlement (with or without linguistic expressions) and Landmarks and negative Settlement (with or without linguistic expressions). Throughout the mental maps complemented through interviews residents environmental perception in relation of the Caraa’s EPA has been built, revealing in its majority, topofilia aspects in relation to the waterfall area in the Rio dos Sinos (part of the EPA) and the topofilia ones and Topophobic ones to the “lived place” (inside or near the EPA). The residents are not aware of the criteria of the use and restrictions of the EPA which shows the lack of community involvement in the elaboration of it. The conflicts due to the usage of the EPA are mainly related to the fact of it had been implanted without an adequate environmental education process, with the local community participation.

No município de Caraá, localiza-se a Área de Proteção Ambiental do Caraá (APA), representando 30% da área total do município. Nessa área, localiza-se a cascata e a nascente do Rio dos Sinos. Apesar de ser uma APA, existem conflitos em sua gestão, principalmente com o uso e manejo do solo. A legislação foi implementada sem um adequado processo de Educação Ambiental. O conhecimento da percepção ambiental da população desse município em relação à APA de Caraá é essencial para o desenvolvimento de programas de gestão e Educação Ambiental para a garantia da conservação desta. Assim, a presente tese tem como objetivo central compreender a percepção ambiental dos moradores locais, em relação à APA de Caraá, a fim de analisar os conflitos de uso da APA, confrontando com os critérios de uso estabelecidos pelos gestores da área e assim verificar se os conflitos, quanto ao uso da APA, decorrem de esta ter sido criada sem a participação da comunidade e desvinculada da Educação Ambiental. Considerando a abordagem da pesquisa qualitativa e quantitativa, com caráter exploratório-descritivo, o presente estudo foi dividido em duas grandes etapas. Primeira: caracterização ambiental da área de estudo; Segunda: caracterização da percepção ambiental dos moradores próximos à APA de Caraá, com ênfase na topofilia e topofobia, através dos seguintes instrumentos: entrevistas semiestruturadas e mapas mentais. Foram realizadas entrevistas com: cem moradores; o cacique da tribo Mbya Guaranis, bem como os professores (dezessete professores) e alunos das séries finais, da quinta à oitava série do ensino fundamental, das escolas participantes desse estudo (total de cem alunos). Para investigar a percepção, a topofilia e a topofobia e considerar qual o significado da APA do Caraá para seus moradores, foi realizado o mapa mental com três moradores entrevistados, de cada uma das comunidades citadas, tendo um total de trinta mapas; com os alunos e professores participantes desse estudo, bem como com cinco índios da tribo Mbya Guaranis. A metodologia de interpretação dos mapas mentais foi feita a partir das orientações de Kozel, de forma adaptada. Foram produzidos 144 mapas mentais, distribuídos nas cinco subcategorias criadas: Landmarks (com ou sem expressões linguísticas); Landmarks e Cascata (com ou sem expressões linguísticas); Landmarks, cascata e Antropismo (com ou sem expressões linguísticas); Landmarks e Antropismo (com ou sem expressões linguísticas) e Landmarks e Antropismo Negativo (com ou sem expressões linguísticas). A partir dos mapas mentais complementados através das entrevistas, foi construída a percepção ambiental dos moradores locais, em relação à APA de Caraá, revelando, em sua maioria, aspectos topofílicos para com a área da cascata do Rio dos Sinos (parte da APA) e aspectos topofílicos e topofóbicos para com o “lugar-vivido” (dentro ou próximo da APA). Os moradores não conhecem os critérios de uso e restrições da APA, o que demonstra a falta de envolvimento da comunidade na elaboração destes. Os conflitos quanto ao uso da APA decorrem principalmente do fato desta ter sido implantada sem um processo de Educação Ambiental adequado, sem a participação da comunidade local. / In the Caraa municipality there is the Environmental Protection Area (EPA), representing 30% of the total area in the municipality. In this area there is the waterfall and the source of Sinos River. Despite being the EPA, there are conflicts in its management, mainly due to the use and soil management. The legislation has been implemented without a suitable environmental educational process. The environmental perception knowledge in the population of such municipality in relation to the Caraa EPA is essential to the development of management programs in the Environmental Education to the guarantee of its conservation. Thus, this very thesis has as its main goal to understand the environmental perception of local residents in relation to Caraa’s EPA, in order to analyze the EPA conflicts of usage, confronting the established criteria usage by the managers in the area and hence verifying if the conflicts with the EPA usage are due to it had been created without the community participation and untied from the Environmental Education. Considering the qualitative and quantitative research approach, with exploitative descriptive character such study has been divided and two large phases: 1st Environmental characterization in the study area and 2nd Characterization of the environmental perception of the near residents of the Caraa’s EPA, with emphasis in the topofilia* and Topophobia through these instruments: Semi-structured interviews and mental maps. 100 interviews with residents have been made, the Mbya Guaranis chieftain tribe, as well as the teachers (17 of them) and junior-high school students- from 5th to 8th grades of junior-high schools form the participant schools in this study (total of 100 students). To investigate the perception, the topofilia and Topophobia and consider what the meaning of the Caraa’s EPA is for the its residents, central maps have been made with three residents from the mentioned communities, having a total of 30 maps; with participant students and teachers in such study, as well as 5 Indians from the Mbya Guaranis tribe. The central maps interpretation methodology has been done through Kozel’s orientations in an adapted way. 144 mental maps have been produced and distributed under 5 subcategories made: Landmarks (with or without linguistic expressions); Landmarks and Waterfall (with or without linguistic expressions), Landmarks, Waterfall and Settlement (with or without linguistic expressions) and Landmarks and negative Settlement (with or without linguistic expressions). Throughout the mental maps complemented through interviews residents environmental perception in relation of the Caraa’s EPA has been built, revealing in its majority, topofilia aspects in relation to the waterfall area in the Rio dos Sinos (part of the EPA) and the topofilia ones and Topophobic ones to the “lived place” (inside or near the EPA). The residents are not aware of the criteria of the use and restrictions of the EPA which shows the lack of community involvement in the elaboration of it. The conflicts due to the usage of the EPA are mainly related to the fact of it had been implanted without an adequate environmental education process, with the local community participation.

Submitted by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2017-04-18T12:48:57Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Raphael de Araújo Pinheiro - 2017.pdf: 5285396 bytes, checksum: 6f119538bcf7b793f8ce46bc89fb1585 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2017-04-18T12:49:54Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Raphael de Araújo Pinheiro - 2017.pdf: 5285396 bytes, checksum: 6f119538bcf7b793f8ce46bc89fb1585 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-04-18T12:49:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Raphael de Araújo Pinheiro - 2017.pdf: 5285396 bytes, checksum: 6f119538bcf7b793f8ce46bc89fb1585 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The insertion of the Cartography within the teaching of Geography, is something extremely relevant for the critical formation of the students. Thus, it is sought to understand the insertion proposal, and also what the student's perception of the environment in which he is present. This dissertation is based on a theoretical background focusing on the relevance of Cartography teaching in the school environment, as well as the collection of documentary data from govern of the state public education, such as the National Curriculum Parameters (NCPs), the Reference Curriculum of the State Network of Goiás and Analysis of the Pedagogical Political Projects in this country. Seeking to have a real notion of the students' understanding of the cartographic content that was taught to them and the relation that they make with experienced geographic space, the analysis of the representations of mental maps produced by students of the 6th grade from two state schools of Pires do Rio (GO). As part of the results achieved, it was possible to perceive some of the main collective difficulties expressed in the representations. One part of the research that drew much attention was the analysis of representations produced by students with special educational needs. In this way, it was possible, through the representations, to understand the perception that 6th grade students have of cartographic teaching. / A inserção da Cartografia dentro do ensino de Geografia é algo extremamente relevante para a formação crítica dos alunos. Assim, busca-se compreender a proposta de inserção, e também qual a percepção que o aluno tem do meio em que ele está presente através dos mapas mentais.A presente dissertação consta de um embasamento teórico enfocando a relevância do ensino de Cartografia no âmbito escolar, além de levantamento de dados documentais que regem o ensino público estadual como os Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCNs), do Currículo de Referência da Rede Estadual de Goiás e análise dos Projetos Políticos Pedagógicos.Buscando ter uma real noção do entendimento que os alunos têm do conteúdo cartográfico que lhes foram ensinados e a relação que fazem com espaço geográfico vivido, foi feita a análise das representações de mapas mentais produzidas por alunos do 6º ano do ensino fundamental de dois colégios estaduais de Pires do Rio (GO).Como parte dos resultados alcançados, foi possível perceber que a maioria dos alunos tem dificuldade em fazer a relação entre os elementos cartográficos e seu cotidiano. Uma parte da pesquisa que chamou muita atenção foi das análises das representações produzidas pelos alunos com Necessidades Educacionais Especiais. Deste modo, foi possível, através das representações feitas, compreender a percepção que os alunos do 6º ano têm do ensino cartográfico.

This diploma thesis deals with the study of the City's Image. The main objective is to present an Image of the city of Konstanz in Germany. The realization was carried out with methods using mental maps (Kevin Lynch), and Panofsky's iconology, which is a method of interpretation that reveals cultural, social, and historical background of city as a visual artwork. The structure of thesis is divided into three chapters Spaziertour - Führertour - Kunsthistorischetour,corresponding to Panofsky's three levels of technique: look - see - think. The main source for me was a visual of the city, my own perception of it, and visual materials displaying the city (pictures of the map, vedutas, photos, viewcards) and places of memory (Pierre Nora). Through the interaction with the surroundings of the city mixed with my subjective feelings. I tried to show the image of this city from a new personal perspective. KEY WORDS Image of the city, mental map, iconology, places of memory, tour

Mental map is considered as an individual’s mental representation of his/her spatial cognition. People learn from the environment and add information to their personal mental map. It becomes important when we try to understand the relationships between one’s travel decision processes and their choice sets. The aim of this paper is to study the relationship between individuals’ activity travel patterns and their mental map by exploring people’s spatial cognition, their activity space and related factors. Two-week travel diary and mental maps were collected for the same 57 individuals in Stockholm. Respondents were asked to report their recent trip information in the travel diary and draw their familiar areas in specified maps. The specified maps, to some extent, reflect respondents’ mental maps by transferring this abstract concept from one’s mind to a visual representation. The derived mental maps were manually drawn and transferred from graph to ASCII code in ArcGIS. The visited activity locations on where people travelled during the observed period were used to construct one’s activity space. The key determinants that construct these activity space and mental map will be investigated. Marginal effect of each key variable will be calculated to understand the magnitude of influence of each variable into the spatial distribution of the given individual’s activity space and mental map. The result shows that individual’s activity space is not necessarily within individual mental map. Both activity space and mental map are correlated with individual’s travel pattern factors. Mental map has positive influence to the formation of activity space. The inference of marginal effect is useful for urban planning, promoting transport policies and analyzing the effect of transport infrastructure since it can help to locate the places that constitute individual’s activity space and mental map areas.