For a singularity of Geography: development of Geographic Thinking

Abstract

Contemporary literature has evoked as responsible for the singularity of Geography, the structuring of a specific way of thinking, called Geographic Thinking. However, if there is a wide defense of Geography as a way of thinking, in a contradictory way, there are still few works that conceptualize what this Geographic Thought is, its processes of structuring and constitution. In this sense, this article aims to contribute to the advancement of the theoretical debate by reducing the gap in the Brazilian literature on the topic. The proposed discussion is based on the following questions: what is Geographic Thinking? How does it develop? What cognitive processes characterize it? To this end, bibliographic research was carried out in the fields of Psychology and Geography, relating human cognition and the specificities attributed to it from the learning and formation of geographical concepts by individuals. It was observed in the end, how this relationship culminates in the constitution of a singular way of thinking.

Keywords:
Geography; Cognition; Geographic Thinking