Geodiversity Elements of Geological Collections as Ex Situ Teaching Tool: The Example of the Geography Department at the Federal University of Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Augusto Gonçalves Nobre, Maurício Meurer, João Felipe Campanaro, André Weissheimer de Borba
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Abstract
Geosciences teaching and geoheritage education (or geoeducation) possess specific characteristics in their teaching–learning process. This is especially because many focused objects and phenomena are three-dimensional and occur at a geological timescale. Traditional practical teaching tools involve carrying out fieldworks, presenting Earth dynamics on-site, and handling mineral/rock samples in classroom (ex situ). This paper explores how geology collections within a university context, as components of geodiversity, not only serve as teaching tools but also receive simultaneous geoconservation measures. The necessary stages to form ex situ geoheritage collections encompass identification, inventory, conservation, protection, promotion, exhibition, and dissemination. This work exemplifies how these actions were implemented in the collection of the Department of Geography at the Federal University of Pelotas, in Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil.
期刊介绍:
The Geoheritage journal is an international journal dedicated to discussing all aspects of our global geoheritage, both in situ and portable. The journal will invite all contributions on the conservation of sites and materials - use, protection and practical heritage management - as well as its interpretation through education, training and tourism.
The journal wishes to cover all aspects of geoheritage and its protection. Key topics are:
- Identification, characterisation, quantification and management of geoheritage;
- Geodiversity and geosites;
- On-site science, geological and geomorphological research:
- Global scientific heritage - key scientific geosites, GSSPs, stratotype conservation
and management;
- Scientific research and education, and the promotion of the geosciences thereby;
- Conventions, statute and legal instruments, national and international;
- Integration of biodiversity and geodiversity in nature conservation and land-use
policies;
- Geological heritage and Environmental Impact Assessment studies;
- Geological heritage, sustainable development, community action, practical initiatives and tourism;
- Geoparks: creation, management and outputs;
- Conservation in the natural world, Man-made and natural impacts, climate change;
- Geotourism definitions, methodologies, and case studies;
- International mechanisms for conservation and popularisation - World Heritage Sites,
National Parks etc.;
- Materials, data and people important in the history of science, museums, collections
and all portable geoheritage;
- Education and training of geoheritage specialists;
- Pedagogical use of geological heritage - publications, teaching media, trails, centres,
on-site museums;
- Linking the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005- 2014) with geoconservation.