Photographic images of urban spaces. The spatial perception of the urban environment in adolescents from Bogotá, Valencia and São Paulo

Abstract

The teaching strategies, from which it is pretended the generation of significant learning about the geographic space, are found in perception, imaginaries and the image of the city represented through photography, a relevant didactic potential for the development of spatial thought. As a didactic proposal for the education about the city, resulting from the research work in the doctoral training process, photography is presented as a category of analysis, a research technique and a language that covers the daily life of the subjects from their lives and their experiences. As a result of this proposal, it was obtained an interpretative work about perception, images of the city and urban imaginaries that were built by the students of basic secondary education in three Ibero-American cities: Bogotá, Valencia and São Paulo. The analyzed elements were useful as the basis for generating the didactic proposal that, from the composition of the photographic image by the adolescents who participated, allowed a progress in the construction of the spatial, temporal and social connection of the city, seen as a social construction and a text that is constantly reinvented.