LOCAL GEOGRAPHIC LANDSCAPE INTERPRETATION
FROM A VANTAGE POINT SITE. THE CASE OF BÂRSANA, MARAMUREȘ COUNTY
Mihai Hotea1, Gabriela Ilieș1, Silviu-Vasile Bumbak1,
Simona-Alina Simion1, Maria Hotea2
1 „Babeș-Bolyai” University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Geography,
Sighetu Marmației Extension, Avram Iancu, no. 6, Sighetu Marmației, Romania,
email: mihai.hotea@ubbcluj.ro,
gabriela.ilies@ubbcluj.ro,
silviu.bumbak@ubbcluj.ro, simona.simion@ubbcluj.ro
2 „Mircea Vulcănescu” Elementary School, Bârsana, email:
mhotea@yahoo.com
Abstract: - Interpreting geographic landscape features of local interest
by accesing the outdoors and specific local viewing sites can be seen as a base
for optimising non-formal learning techniques applied to geography teaching to
young pupils. The paper proposes a learning model by focusing on three key
perspectives of landscape analysis, tested and substantiated using the local
scenery of Bârsana Village as a background – the visual, the emotional and the
interpretative perspective. The visual perspective highlights a series of
specific indicators related to the objectiveness of landscape analysis by
studying its natural and anthropic components and their features. The emotional
perspective highlights the subjectiveness of landscape analysis and derives from
the broader field of emotional geography. These indicators, once defined, can be
further used in the „learn by experience” educational process. The
interpretative perspective results from the two perspectives mentioned above and
represents the skill of deciphering and understanding the complex physical and
human features of a landscape.
Key-words: landscape interpretation, vantage point site, educational
tourism, scientific tourism, Bârsana, Maramureș
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