Teaching physical geography in tourism through a discursive genre from the professional field

From the nineties, in the field of higher education in Argentina, the importance of learning the discursive forms of scientific disciplines during training is recognized. In this work, we present a didactic proposal for teaching the subject Physical Geography in the first year of a Tourism career at the National University of Tierra del Fuego. The interest of this subject is that it brings together various fields of knowledge such as geology, climatology, geomorphology and cartography, and pursues the objective that students acquire tools to observe and interpret the physical elements that form the geographical spaces in which tourism takes place. Here, we propose a teaching strategy that exploits the epistemic potential and social function of writing to promote the construction of knowledge and professional identity within this disciplinary domain through a specific genre of Tourism: the descriptive guide in travel journals. Thus, the present contribution develops a didactic sequence centred on the unity of the program linked to the glacial landscape and is deployed through multiple activities and performances. In this way, it is sought to favour the articulation of disciplinary contents with a discursive genre of the professional field to exercise tourist communication, a central aspect in the graduate's profile and fundamental for acting in such field, but so far little attended during the student formation.