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Orbis scholae is an academic journal published by Charles University, Prague. It features articles on school education in the wider socio-cultural context. It aims to contribute to our understanding and the development of school education, and to the reflection of teaching practice and educational policy.
ORBIS SCHOLAE, Vol 3 No 2 (2009), 77–95
Up to the garden fence or The world at primary school
Daniela Schmeinck
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23363177.2018.213
published online: 23. 02. 2018
abstract
Up to now only few empirical studies have focused on the development of children’s spatial cognition. The study examines the map-drawing abilities of an international sample of ten-year-old children by examining the nature of world maps they have drawn. It explores the extent to which different factors of influence, e.g. the presence of media, travel activity, handling of cartographic media, individual interest and family or school factors of in. uence are correlated to the enhanced ability of the children to represent their spatial cognitive structure of the world as a drawn map. The paper discusses the implications of the findings for the creation of learning environments which support the development of map-drawing using both ways – the way “from local to global” as well as the way “from global to local”.
keywords: experiences; factors of influence; geography; mental maps; cognitive perceptions; primary school; world
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ISSN: 1802-4637
E-ISSN: 2336-3177
