FOR A SCOUT GEOGRAPHY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE GEOGRAPHY AND SCOUT MOVEMENT IN THE GEOGRAPHICAL SPACE
Scouting; geography teaching; non-formal education; educational methodologies
The Scout Movement brings within it the essence of forming citizens committed to the society in which they are inserted. Its educational proposal is constantly changing in the same way in whom space and geographic science change. Based on the ideas developed by the Scout Movement, this research has as main objective to analyze the participation of Geography in the Scout Movement and its relationship with geographic space. It uses the phenomenological-hermeneutic methodology as an instrument to understand Scouting and its action in the space lived, starting from experiences with games and the mateira practice. As an initial milestone is a history of the Scout Movement, geography as a school science and educational actions, using as a basis the proposals of formal teaching of geography and the non-formal Scout. Later, questionnaires will be conducted and analyzed with Scout leaders in search of perceiving the geographical experience in their Scout groups and how geographic space is perceived during the mating activities.