Instructional discourse in geography in the face of regulatory discourse
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.unipluri.362470Keywords:
teaching-learning, geography teaching, recontextualizationAbstract
The increasing and complex influence of regulative discourse has an effect of controlling power over the instructional discourse that focuses on geographic knowledge. The author analyzes the conditions that motivate the influence of regulative discourse by public authorities, private agents, and social actors. Given the view of such influences of regulative discourse, the author proposes strategies to recontextualize the geographic knowledge in the classroom. These strategies would allow the creation of an efficient link between instructional and regulative discourses.
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