Geography teacher education in brazil, spain and potugal: readout of the curriculum frameworks prevailed in 2013

Abstract:

This paper aims to discuss the curriculum frameworks of 10 Geography teacher graduation courses and concern institutions of three nationalities, in other words, one institution per Brazilian region, one institution from the Galicia region (Spain), and one institution from the Minho region (Portugal). It concerns a qualitative survey, based on documental analysis (obtained in 2013), and in the theoretical references in the fields of curriculum studies and teacher education. The qualitative methodology, with content analysis, was the methodological option. Despite the relevance pointed in the theoretical contributions of the teacher education field in Brazil, as well as in Spain and Portugal, the interdisciplinary attempts, articulation of theory and practice, interaction between university and internship field, insertion of the survey and technologies towards teaching, in the initial academic teaching education, presented themselves in a precise manner, not permeating all the analyzed documents.

Keywords:
Curriculum; Geography; Teacher education.