Re-centring Geoinformation in Secondary Education: Toward a Spatial Citizenship Approach

Gryl, İnga; Jekel, Thomas

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“…At the same time, new knowledge is generated and communicated across spatial distances using the web-based BIS. This is also guaranteed through the underlying education approaches of the project like environmental citizenship (DOBSEN & BELL 2006) and spatial citizenship (GRYL & JEKEL, 2012), which explicitly consider aspects of participation, empowerment, and capacity building. This also means that the access of the civil society to the BIS is ensured through digital devices that are based on regionally appropriate technologies and approaches.…”

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Citizen Science and Digital Geomedia: Implementing a Biodiversity Information System in Cabo Verde

Kanwischer¹,

Burger²

2015

GI_Forum 2014 – Geospatial Innovation for Society

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Digital geomedia has an enormous potential for the activation of citizens and organizations in the area of ecological and spatial awareness. By means of the new spatial media, the civil society is given the opportunity to acquire information and knowledge on environmental aspects. At the same time, they can collect new georeferenced data independently, and contribute this data to the scientific community. The purpose of this paper is to contribute a practical approach to promote a sustainable biodiversity management and monitoring system in combination with an education system in Cabo Verde. The underlying theoretical framework for the design of the participatory Biodiversity Information System (BIS) is set by the critical GIS-debate. The project is based on educational approaches of environmental citizenship and spatial citizenship, which explicitly take into account aspects of participation, empowerment, and capacity building. The result of this paper aims at implementing a cooperation between citizens and scientists in the area of biodiversity in Cabo Verde.

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Citizen Science and Digital Geomedia: Implementing a Biodiversity Information System in Cabo Verde

Kanwischer¹,

Burger²

2015

GI_Forum 2014 – Geospatial Innovation for Society

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“…The rather recent theoretical concept of 'Spatial Citizenship' and the emerging framework of 'education for Spatial Citizenship' pick up on these issues (GRYL & JEKEL 2012;GRYL, JEKEL & DONERT 2010). Starting from the assumption of the social embeddedness and hence non-neutrality of GIS and building on 'Critical GIS' research at the interface between (geographic) information science and (geographical) social theory, GRYL, SCHULZE & KANWISCHER's paper in this volume advances the concept of competence as applied to Spatial Citizenship.…”

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Section Editorial: Geoinformation and Society: Practising and Comprehending Geomedia

Quade¹,

Felgenhauer²,

Ferber

2013

GI_Forum 2013 – Creating the GISociety

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“…This is underlined, on the one hand, by the emergence of a number of GI education approaches such as spatial thinking (NRC 2006) or spatial citizenship (GRYL & JEKEL 2012), which aim at putting competence models, teaching courses and materials at teachers' fingertips. On the other hand, industry sets focus on providing usable tools and data to teachers, to allow them to incorporate GI in teaching.…”

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“…Thus, it is a general necessity that children must be supported in a targeted, suitable manner, to use and discover maps, what today especially refers to the use of web maps (see e.g. GRYL & JEKEL 2012, ÖSTERREICHER 2005.…”

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“…Secondly, regardless of the subject, the inclusion of geomedia (also encompassing the use of web maps) in school education took place in recent years (DONERT 2010, GRYL & JEKEL 2012, KERSKI 2008. This is underlined, on the one hand, by the emergence of a number of GI education approaches such as spatial thinking (NRC 2006) or spatial citizenship (GRYL & JEKEL 2012), which aim at putting competence models, teaching courses and materials at teachers' fingertips.…”

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YouthMap 5020! What should youth-centred web maps look like?

Hennig

Vogler

2015

GI_Forum 2014 – Geospatial Innovation for Society

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In recent years, web maps designed to meet the needs of particular user groups have gained in interest. A user group hereby mostly neglected are children including teenagers (i.e. the youth). While little is yet known about how this user group actually uses websites or how to design websites that will be easy for this user group to use, this is even truer for web maps, whose use has experienced a boom lately. Meanwhile, web maps have not only become a pervasive element on the Internet, but also a relevant means for education and teaching purposes. However, to address the rather special user group of children and teenagersknown for being, e.g., impatient and quick to judge -it is necessary to exercise the design of web maps with care. But many questions still remain open with regard to youth-centred web maps. This refers to the requirements and needs of young people, including issues such as the type of device mainly and preferably used, map design, map content, as well as range and properties of functionalities. The project YouthMap 5020 aims to answer these questions. Therefore, the approach of participatory design, which is considered particularly useful when it comes to working with children, is used.

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Re-centring Geoinformation in Secondary Education: Toward a Spatial Citizenship Approach

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Citizen Science and Digital Geomedia: Implementing a Biodiversity Information System in Cabo Verde

Citizen Science and Digital Geomedia: Implementing a Biodiversity Information System in Cabo Verde

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