CARTOGRAPHIC LANGAUGE IN THE TEACHING OF GEOGRAPHY

his work is to list the elements of the cartographic language knowledge in geography teaching. The contents of knowledge mapping in primary and secondary education are presented as evidence of students and teachers, such as those with a higher degree of difficulty in the teaching / learning process. Such difficulties sometimes lead to secondarization such content, either for lack of suitable materials, either by deficiencies in the areas of its theoretical and methodological foundations. Taking this argument as true and in all, understanding that there are indeed difficulties in developments such content, fundamental for understanding the current world, whether in daily life is for professional use, it is deemed necessary a deepening this issue, seeking improvements that could contribute to possible corrections of these weaknesses.