The diploma thesis deals with teaching the local region on the second stage of primary school. The main aim is oriented on creation design concepts of the curriculum to teach the local region of Žďár nad Sázavou. The diploma thesis consists of three parts. The theoretical part deals with the geographical characteristics of the monitored area, the role of the curriculum in the context of current curricular documents in the Czech Republic and modern methods of teaching geography at the 2nd stage of primary school. In the research part there are developed and evaluated the results of the survey conducted in selected primary schools. The practical part includes educational materials in the form of two multimedia textbooks, worksheets for pupils and methodological guides for teachers.

This Diploma thesis consists of two basic parts. In the first section includes research on specialist geographical literature, nonfiction literature, travel and didactic literature and geography textbooks for the upper primary school. The second section of the thesis comprises of my own teaching manual which focuses on the regional geography of North America, specifically the United States of America. Based on his own traveling experience the author presents the pupils the geographic curriculum of the upper primary school through the medium of a travel story. The teaching manual was created in Microsoft Publisher 2010. The travel book is complemented by extended definitions of terms, tables, colour schemes and a number of personal photographs which were taken during journeys around the USA.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:27:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2004-12-14Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T18:32:06Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 tiradentes_l_me_rcla.pdf: 6800688 bytes, checksum: 55630e04f10f610363052b9504b390bc (MD5) / Na presente pesquisa analisamos as atividades turísticas em quatro propriedades rurais do Município de Araponga na Microrregião da Zona da Mata de Viçosa - MG, identificando suas diferentes realidades, seu processo de construção, desenvolvimento e compreensão quanto ao modo como elas interagem no espaço local. De caráter exploratório e de natureza qualitativa, utilizamos o estudo de caso como metodologia, tendo como instrumentos a observação e as entrevistas semi-estruturadas. O objetivo principal desta pesquisa foi analisar o turismo no espaço rural como fator de desenvolvimento das propriedades que já realizam algum tipo de oferta turística. Os resultados indicaram que as atividades turísticas estão inseridas na realidade das propriedades rurais, coexistindo com as práticas agropecuárias cotidianas, e com suas diferentes terminologias para as várias realidades turísticas no campo tais como pousada rural, camping, entre outras, que não abordam necessariamente a mesma modalidade de atividades. De maneira geral, o turismo no espaço rural encontra nas propriedades rurais pesquisadas, um local adequado para o seu pleno aproveitamento, desde que realizado de maneira planejada e responsável. / At the present research we analyse tourist activities in four rural properties of Araponga town at Zona da Mata Micro region of Viçosa in the state of Minas Gerais, it identifying your different realities, your construction process, development and understanding like they interact in the local space. Of exploring character and qualitative nature, we use the studying of case like methodology, it having like tools observation and interviews semi-structured. The main objective of this research was analyse tourism in rural space like development factor of properties have already made some kind of tourist offer. The results indicated that tourist activities are inserted in the reality of rural properties, it existing together with daily farming and cattle raising practices, it there being different terminologies to several tourist realities at the country like rural inn, camping, and others, it doesn't necessarily approaching the same kind of activities. In general, the tourism in rural space finds in researched rural properties an appropriate local to its full utilization since it put into practice in some planned and answerable way.

Acompanhado de 1 CD-ROM / Orientador: Eliseu Savério Sposito / Banca: Raul Borges Guimarães / Banca: Everaldo Santos Melazzo / Banca: Sandra Lencioni / Banca: André Roberto Martin / Resumo: Esta tese refere-se ao estudo da Região de Presidente Prudente, localizada no oeste do Estado de São Paulo, que se constituiu no auge da expansão da cultura cafeeira paulista no século XX. Trata-se de um estudo de Geografia Regional, que se aproxima da Geografia Histórica, buscando compreender a partir do discurso regional as representações sociais sobre a região e os significados políticos dessas representações. O veículo escolhido para a apreensão do discurso foi o jornal mais antigo da região, ainda editado, que é simultaneamente também um dos sujeitos produtores do discurso regional. O jornal, documento de domínio público, é reconhecido nesta tese como um espaço de diálogo de atores sociais (jornalistas, acadêmicos, empresários, políticos etc.) que enunciam e têm a região como importante base territorial nas relações de poder. No conjunto de discursos apreendidos no jornal e de três obras referenciais sobre a formação da região, identificou-se através das diferentes denominações e imagens regionais, contidas nesses discursos, representações sociais sobre a região. Do Sertão do Vale do Paranapanema à Região de Presidente Prudente, passando pela Alta Sorocabana e 10ª Região Administrativa, percorreu-se sua história centenária identificando duas formas como a região é representada socialmente: a região do devir e a região do atraso. Dessa identificação, levantou-se a hipótese de que o discurso, político em sua essência, significa e ressignifica a região tornando suas fronteiras voláteis e indefinidas, atuando no sentido de ampliá-las, o que demonstra que a região tem grande importância nas relações de poder que se dão em âmbito regional. A região é, portanto, além de um espaço de identidade e convivência, um espaço de conveniência política. / Abstract: This study is about Presidente Prudente’s region in the west of São Paulo State. This region was constituted in the summit of the coffee plantation expansion in São Paulo State in the century XX. Through to Regional Geography study and the Historical Geography it’s looking for to understand the regional speech and social representations and the political meanings of them. The local oldest newspaper play a part of the role to building this regional speech then it was chosen to indentify theirs subjects. This thesis uses a newspaper like a recognized public document whose is a space for dialogue between social subjects (journalists, academics, entrepreneurs, political etc.). Those subjects enunciate and consider the region as well as important territorial base in the relationships of power. In the group of speeches studied in this newspaper and others three referencial academic works it was possible to identify differents denominations for regional imaginary means contained in those speeches and social representations. From the of Paranapanema Valley to Presidente Prudente Region, going by Alta Sorocabana and 10th Administrative Region, it was traveled by centennial history identifying two forms socially represented: the region of the devir (to become economically developed) and the region of the delay (to fail economically). The hypothesis building is that a regional speech gives significations and new signifactaions for region that turning their borders volatile and indefinite. The effect of indefined borders is acting in the sense to enlarge the region area influence, what demonstrates that has great power importance in this space. The region is, therefore, the space of social identity and coexistence and the space of political conveniences. / Doutor

A Geografia Regional, desde seus primórdios, se apresenta como um dos alicerces da Geografia, tendo sido considerada durante anos o elo entre a Geografia Física e a Geografia Humana. Desta forma, conhecer uma parte de sua trajetória na história da Geografia brasileira é fundamental. Para conhecer uma parte dessa história, elegemos como estudo de caso a Universidade de São Paulo, visto que a mesma é referência nacional e internacional e representa também o início do processo de institucionalização do curso de Geografia no Brasil. Adotamos como marco temporal inicial da pesquisa o ano de 1934, início do curso de Geografia, naquele momento ainda uma sub-seção de Geografia e História, na antiga Faculdade de Ciências e Letras. O período do estudo se encerra em 2014, ano inicial da pesquisa da autora. Diante disso, o objetivo principal desta dissertação de mestrado é analisar como a chamada Geografia Regional participou da formação do curso de Geografia da Universidade de São Paulo, a partir de 1934, considerando a sua evolução no tempo, até 2014. A análise foi feita a partir dos programas curriculares de todas as disciplinas que o curso de Geografia já teve ao longo desses 80 anos, e também através de entrevistas com docentes do curso de Geografia da USP. Entre as conclusões a que chegamos, apoiamos-nos nas noções de tradição seletiva, de Michael Apple (2008) e de paradigma, de Thomas Kuhn (2013). / Regional Geography, since its early days, is one of Geographys foundations, being considered for years the link between Physical Geography and Human Geography. Thus, knowing part of its trajectory in the history of Brazils Geography is essential. In order to know part of this history, the case study of Universidade de São Paulo (University of São Paulo/USP) has been elected, since this institution is a national and international reference and also represents the beginning of the process for institutionalizing Geography courses in Brazil. The initial point for this studys timeframe was set to 1934, when the Geography course started at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences, a former sub-section of Geography and History within the Faculty of Sciences and Letters. This timeframe ended in 2014, when the authors research began. Therefore, the primary purpose of this Masters Dissertation is to analyze how the regional debate fell under the Universidade de São Paulos Geography course, from 1934, considering its evolution in time, until 2014. This analysis is based on the curricula of all subjects taught in the Geography course since 1934, as well as on interviews with USPs Geography professors pertaining to Regional Geography. Among the conclusions we come to, we rely on the notions of \"selective tradition\", by Michael Apple (2008), and paradigm, by Thomas Kuhn (2013).

A pesquisa consiste em um esforço de exposição, análise e interpretação de algumas questões teórico-metodológicas referentes à natureza da ciência geográfica presentes na obra do geógrafo estadunidense Richard Hartshorne (1899-1992). O recorte de análise escolhido pretende, a partir da definição do propósito da Geografia formulada pelo autor, compreender suas reflexões a respeito da relação entre os enfoques sistemático e regional na disciplina e pensar seu papel na história do pensamento geográfico do século XX, buscando evidenciar a operação de determinados mecanismos constitutivos do campo científico e de certas posturas filosóficas em sua obra. Hartshorne deixou um extenso legado para a Geografia em importantes obras e artigos publicados, sobretudo, entre as décadas de 1930 e 1960. Dentre essas contribuições, as obras The Nature of Geography (1939) e Perspective on The Nature of Geography (1959) estão entre as mais importantes peças da extensa produção intelectual do autor. Essas duas obras, conjuntamente aos textos de alguns comentadores e críticos, constituem o material fundamental da nossa análise. / The research consists in an effort to display, analysis and interpretation of some theoretical and methodological issues concerning the nature of geographical science in the works of American geographer Richard Hartshorne (1899-1992). The chosen analysis clipping want, from the definition of the purpose of Geography formulated by the author, understand his reflections on the relationship between systematic and regional approaches in the discipline and think his role in the history of geographical thought of the twentieth century in order to enhance the operation of certain constituent mechanisms of the scientific field and certain philosophical positions in his work. Hartshorne left an extensive legacy for Geography in important works and published articles, especially between the 1930s and 1960. Among these contributions, the works The Nature of Geography (1939) and Perspective on The Nature of Geography (1959) are among the most important parts of the extensive intellectual production of the author. These two works, together to the texts of some commentators and critics, are the fundamental material of our analysis.

Územní diferenciace elementárního vzdělávání v Česku v 2. polovině 20. století (Vliv na lokální a regionální rozvoj) Od druhé poloviny 20. století jsme v mnoha hospodářsky vyspělých zemích, Česko nevyjímaje, svědky procesu výrazné polarizace prostoru v souvislosti se změnami v rozmístění elementárních škol. Masové uzavírání škol, zejména na venkově, a koncentrace vzdělávací funkce do center regionů vychází z obecných procesů, jakými jsou změny geografické organizace společnosti, stejně jako ze specifických historických podmínek v každé zemi. V této práci se na příkladu Česka pokusíme představit pomocí metod, jež jsou geografům vlastní, změny, které proběhly v síti elementárních škol. Dále budeme specifikovat vybrané důsledky tohoto procesu na stabilitu a fungování lokálních komunit a jeho vliv na marginalizaci obcí. ABSTRACT Territorial Differentiation of Elementary Education in Czechia during the Second Half of the Twentieth Century (Its Influence on Local and Regional Development) We are all witnesses to a process of extensive spatial polarization in the distribution of elementary schools in many economically developed countries, including Czechia, during the second half of the 20th and in the 21st century. Processes of mass school closures, especially in rural areas, and the concentration of...

Title: Regional identity of the Ostrov region inhabitants Author: Martin Kulhánek Department: Department of Social Geography and Regional Development Year: 2010 Supervisor: RNDr. Pavel Chromý, Ph.D. Abstract The thesis is focused on the topic of regional identity of inhabitants. A discuss about literature mainly focusing on regional identity of inhabitans in context with the topic of polarization of territory will be found in the first part of the thesis. The Ostrov region, that is located in the territory of ORP Ostrov in the region of Karlovy Vary, was selected as a interesting area for the research of subjective sensation of the inhabited area. The major reason for the selection of this region was its location near the borders and its specific development in the 20th century. The second part of the thesis are analyses of the potential of formalization of regional identity on the bases of objective dates. Differences of particular components of the current potential between two modeled areas, which within the area of interest were defined as Ostrov area and Jáchymov area, were observed. In the third part of the thesis there have been carried out analyses of regional identity of inhabitants of the area of interest based on a questionary. On the ground of this survey there was researched the rate of...

The goal of this thesis is to analyse the role of the teacher in teaching regional geography at school using cartographic tools - mental and teaching maps. Suitable class of elementary school was chosen at first and then the research was taken. The pupils had to draw their mental maps of chosen continent and complete the questionnaire. That served as a source of possible data influence or distortion in drawen maps. Then the mental and teaching maps were compared and was evaluated the role of the teacher. The important part of this thesis is the discussion of reached results.