Martin HanusCharles University, Prague, Czechia · Dpt. of Social Geography and Regional Development; Centre for Geographical and Environmental Education
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Maps are an increasingly used source of information and it is therefore essential to develop map skills in students. A fundamental factor affecting the choice of map skills and the way they are developed is the teacher and his/her concept of map work. Based on the results of a survey and semi-structured interviews among Czech teachers, this study i...
For a few decades, map skills stay at the forefront of not only geographers’ and geographic educators’ research interest. To identify what has already been accomplished, where the research currently stands and where the potential for future studies lies, a review of the literature was carried out. Specifically, this comprehensive synthesis of map s...
The paper aims to analyse the attitudes towards immigration among Czech youth and their changes on two distinct surveys of
young Czechs (aged 14–19) held in 2011 and 2016, the years before and after a period of a greatly increased inflow of migrants
to the European Union. In these surveys, special focus was given to changes in attitudes and factors...
GeoCapabilities offers an approach for unlocking powerful disciplinary knowledge (PDK) for children. In phase three of the project, we are exploring how far GeoCapabilities ‘works’ for teachers serving communities in challenging socio-economic circumstances. We connect GeoCapabilities to social justice in education, theoretically. Then, using the t...
Spatial perception is formed throughout our entire lives. Its quality depends on our individual differences and the characteristics of the environment. A sketch map is one way of visualising an individual's spatial perception. It can be evaluated like a real map, in terms of its positional accuracy, content frequency and choice of cartographic meth...
Developing young people’s understanding of geography concepts requires teachers who have detailed, structured, interconnected, and accurate conceptual knowledge and understanding. Accordingly, this study focuses on pre-service geography teachers’ understanding of the exemplar concept of contours on maps and discusses its implications for teacher tr...
Considering students’ prior knowledge, everyday experience and future career aspirations when designing geography curriculum and making content- and pedagogy-related decisions promotes young people’s confidence, interests, and motivation to learn geography. Moreover, it increases the utility, value and relevance of school geography. The chapter add...
Quality education requires teachers to approach the curriculum systematically. Systematicity in education can be viewed from different perspectives. One of these is fidelity across the different levels of the curriculum: planned, implemented, and acquired. The basic premise is that what has been planned should be implemented and mastered. Therefore...
When spatial information is depicted on univariate or multivariate maps, different visualization designs should be considered to fit the designs to suit the target audience and define the map’s general purpose and therefore also the map user’s expected cognitive processes. Although multivariate maps have attracted research for decades, only several...
GeoCapabilities is a distinctive approach to teacher professional development which foregrounds the educational potential of geographical knowledge. This paper examines the effect of GeoCapabilities on geography teachers’ expertise. First, the paper explores a problem of teacher training which privileges technique for classroom effectiveness over g...
Despite the extensive discussion on the educational potential of GIS and the changes made in the curricula in many countries, the implementation of GIS in classrooms has still been relatively slow. This is because of variables limiting the process of GIS implementation in lessons. Although research into the limits of GIS implementation has been car...
To become a good geography teacher requires developing knowledge, understanding, skills, and attitudes in the field of geography as well as in pedagogical principles. When preparing future teachers, their own conceptual understanding of fundamental geographic concepts must be considered. Given that, identification of teachers’ understanding as well...
The Czech education system is said to be very rigid. It fails to implement change and therefore our pupils fall behind in international comparisons. Based on the existing research (Mullis et.al. 2004;Bednarz et al. 2006),we anticipate that there will be problems with teachers' implementation of complex and cognitively demanding map skills developme...
The dispersion of new technologies into education opens up new perspectives for the assessment of students’ performance, not only in their knowledge but also in their skills. One of these perspectives is the use of systems that enable adaptive assessment, i.e., personalized (mostly online) assessment according to the actual position of each student...
Maps are not just powerful tools to communicate spatial information; they also have
significant educational potential to develop students’ knowledge, skills, and thinking. To fully
exploit this potential, deep research is needed into map-use processes considering the variability of
map types and the cognitive complexity of map operations. Whereas r...
Spatial thinking is a crucial aspect of geography education with which all citizens should be equipped. This study employs eye-tracking technology to research strategies (their repertoire, distribution, effectiveness , and adaptiveness) used by upper-secondary students when analyzing spatial patterns with thematic maps. The results show that studen...
During the 2015 sudden rise in migration movements in Europe, approximately 2.4 million refugees arrived in Europe and 1.2 million asylum applications were received in the European Union countries.
We were interested in finding out whether these rapid changes
and the polarised attitudes represented in the media affected
young people’s attitudes tow...
Map skills development is a topic widely discussed in both Czech and foreign research studies. Within the extensive
discussion on the Czech system of education and its changes, map skills are considered crucial for the future education,
and it is therefore not surprising that Czech geography educators focus on this topic intensively. Although there...
The use of maps as a complex source of geographical information requires a certain level of mathematical literacy. The lack of such literacy can cause severe failures in map use and the development of map skills. Therefore, this paper aims to contribute to the discussion about the difficulties in using quantitative thematic maps (specifically choro...
School geography is undergoing long-term development from delivering encyclopaedic knowledge” to the systematic development of students’ geographical thinking. Maps can be a powerful tool for such development. The article presents the educational potential of maps, types of map skills, and ways of structuring map tasks to develop geographical think...
Certifikovaná metodika shrnuje poznatky empirického výzkumu v oblasti kartografie a mapových dovedností a aplikuje je do roviny vzdělávání na základních a středních školách. Metodika byla v souladu s podmínkami "Metodiky hodnocení výsledků výzkumu a vývoje" certifikována Národním pedagogickým institutem České republiky. Je určena vyučujícím na zákl...
Lesson Study as a method of professional development of teachers. The article presents a method of professional development of teachers called Lesson Study. It also reflects the authors’ personal experience with this method. When using this method, teachers are partners at all phases of teaching: planning, implementation, and evaluation. The main b...
For a few decades, map skills stay at the forefront of not only geographers’ and geographic educators’ research interest. To identify what has already been accomplished, where the research currently stands and where the potential for future studies lies, a review of the literature was carried out. Specifically, this comprehensive synthesis of map s...
This study focuses on the strategies used during an analysis of four types of thematic
maps (line symbols, area-shading, choropleths, and diagram maps) on the basis of the use of eyetracking technology. Moreover, it discusses the use of data-driven (spatial and spatiotemporal) and theory-driven (spatiotemporal) methodological approaches to research...
Thematic maps are becoming increasingly important in the current information age, and therefore they have become part of the everyday life of the wider public. Given the number of mapping methods used in thematic cartography, the question arises of what extent the utilized method influences a user’s map use level. For this reason, research has been...
There is currently a stress on the need to bring up the individuals able to look at global trends from various viewpoints, and tolerating and respecting people from other cultures, with different religions and worldviews as well. The study explores the way the task is fulfilled in the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Czechia, Hungary and Serbia. A qu...
Mental
maps are an object of interest on the part of a number of academic disciplines, including geography
education. The aim of this article is to discuss different concepts of mental maps in
geography and pedagogical disciplines and to describe the possibilities of their use as an object
and tool of geographical education. All of this is subseque...
What olympiad does geography need? – The paper deals with the issue of Geography
Olympiad as seen by geographical didactics. Firstly, the current state of the Olympiad
is described. Secondly, basic features of this type of school contest at the general level are discussed.
These features are subsequently used for an analysis and assessment of the c...
The paper focuses on the impacts of the general education curriculum reform that has placed the pupils’ skills in the foreground of interest. Map skills are one of the most important groups of geographical skills. A test of map skills was drawn up in order to evaluate the level of map skills among pupils aged 11, 15 and 18. Its implementation prove...
This article explores the uniqueness of the Historický atlas měst České republiky [Historical Atlas of Towns in the Czech Republic], focusing on its use in geography or history classes in Czech schools. After an initial theoretical framework, the article presents specific suggestions for using this collection directly in classroom instruction. Part...
Using Historical Atlas of Towns in the Classroom – Part 2. This article explores the uniqueness of the Historický atlas měst České republiky [Historical Atlas of Towns in the Czech Republic], focusing on its use in geography or history classes in Czech schools. The article builds on the earlier installment, describing the historical atlas of towns,...
The Importance of Map Skill Development in Education. Maps are becoming an increasingly important source of information. Pupils often
come across them while surfing the internet or watching television. The proliferation of maps into various fields calls for an integration of activities
requiring work with maps into lessons in subjects other than ge...
Geografické rozhledy 5/14–15 geografie a škola Rozvoj mapových dovedností ve výuce dějepisu Historie a geografie jsou vědní obory, které se navzájem doplňují. Myšlenku integrace geografie a historie obsahuje i vědní obor historická geografie. Jak uvádí citát, často přisuzovaný kapitánu Smithovi, geografie bez historie se zdá být nehybnou mrtvolou,...
The study presents selected results of an analysis of biology, history and mathematics textbooks, with particular attention devoted to the development of map skills facilitated by these educational tools. Among other information, results show considerable randomness in the presence of maps and map utilizing learning tasks in mathematics and biology...
Although the acquisition of map skills is one of the primary objectives of geographic education, sufficient attention is yet to been paid to this topic in the Czech academic community. This lack of attention causes not only discrepancy in the definition of map skills, but also inconsistency in the classification of categories of map skills. This st...
The paper presents the results of research that focuses on the ideas and views of primary,
lower secondary, and upper secondary school teachers concerning the required geographical
skills performance of pupils at the end of the 5th and 9th grades of so called elementary
school and the last year of upper secondary school (approximately aged 11, 15 a...
This monograph outlines and enframes the outcomes of the research projects in didactics for the subjects of biology, geography, and chemistry. This project has been supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (P407/10/0514). Based on a multi-level analysis of skills on the levels of the intended, realised, and achieved curriculum, an entire...
The contribution deals with a comparison of curricular documents of Czechia, Slovakia, Finland and the U.S.A., with special emphasis on map skills. Requirements for map skills of 11, 15 and 18-years-aged pupils, included in the curricula of the above mentioned countries, have been classified using the Revised Bloom's taxonomy. Subsequent comparison...