Overview
- Examines new geospatial technologies used in geography education and informal education
- Demonstrates how spatial information systems are implemented in educational practice
- Discusses innovative approaches to geography education
Part of the book series: Key Challenges in Geography (KCHGE)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Spatial Thinking and Web-GIS
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Geospatial Technologies for Education in Non-Formal Contexts
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Geospatial Technologies for Education: Practices and Case Studies
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About this book
This book addresses new pedagogies focusing on the use of geospatial technologies and geomedia in the classroom. Today, geospatial technologies are substantially influencing geography teaching and learning, particularly in secondary education. Web-GIS, virtual globes, storytelling, maps and apps for mobile devices are transforming the nature and design of geography curricula, instructional processes, didactics, resources and assessments. Undoubtedly, geography is among those school subjects that have benefited most from the implementation of new technologies in the classroom. Geospatial technologies can be used to develop inquiry-based learning or project-based learning pedagogies and help students to acquire spatial reasoning and spatial citizenship skills in the context of education for sustainable development.
This book highlights a range of initiatives, projects and educational practices – from several European countries and settings – related to geospatial challenges in geography education. Given its scope, it will be equally appealing to scientists, students and teachers of geography and other fields using geospatial technologies and geomedia.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Geospatial Technologies in Geography Education
Editors: Rafael de Miguel González, Karl Donert, Kostis Koutsopoulos
Series Title: Key Challenges in Geography
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17783-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17782-9Published: 29 May 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-17785-0Published: 05 June 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-17783-6Published: 21 May 2019
Series ISSN: 2522-8420
Series E-ISSN: 2522-8439
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 219
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Technology and Digital Education, Human Geography, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Science Education