Digital images and geography teaching

reflections on the new corpus of geographical images and the knowledge constructed for their teaching

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22483/2177-5796.2025v27id5571

Keywords:

digital images, geography teacher training, visual instruction.

Abstract

Assuming the power of images in geographic education, we aim to explore how the proliferation of digital images in educational environments has reshaped the corpus of images considered relevant to Geography teaching. Departing from a brief analysis of Geography’s visual character and the conformation of its corpus of images, we analyse the new practices and tasks that teachers construct to deal with the introduction of digital images. Finally, we focus on a specific support for their inclusion: Power Point slides. We trace the continuities that these digital projections have in the history of geography teaching to argue that they are part of school geography’s disciplinary code. We describe the new uses and advantages they assume in the current context of virtual and bimodal education. This analysis is based on interviews and teaching materials provided by teachers from two Geography Teacher Training Colleges in Córdoba city (Argentina): the Instituto de Educación Superior Simón Bolívar and the Instituto Superior del Profesorado Antonio Sobral.

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Author Biographies

  • María Rita Maldonado, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)

    Doutoranda em Geografia na Universidade de Buenos Aires, com financiamento do Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas Científicas e Técnicas (CONICET). É professora e graduada em História e especialista em ensino de ciências sociais, com especialização em Geografia, pela Universidade Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. É professora assistente na Cátedra de Geografia Humana da Faculdade de História da Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas da Universidade Nacional de Córdoba.

     

  • Verónica Carolina Hollman, CONICET- Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Instituto de Geografía.

    D. in Social Sciences from FLACSO, Argentina and Master of Arts from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Independent Researcher at CONICET based at the Institute of Geography of the University of Buenos Aires. 

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Published

2025-08-29

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Dossiê - Práticas de Ensino, Linguagens e Metodologias na Educação Geográfica”

How to Cite

MALDONADO, María Rita; HOLLMAN, Verónica Carolina. Digital images and geography teaching: reflections on the new corpus of geographical images and the knowledge constructed for their teaching. Quaestio - Revista de Estudos em Educação, Sorocaba, SP, v. 27, p. e025031, 2025. DOI: 10.22483/2177-5796.2025v27id5571. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uniso.br/quaestio/article/view/5571. Acesso em: 15 jun. 2026.