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Gwenda van der Vaart; Bettina van Hoven; Imogen Humphris – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2025
This article discusses Deep Mapping in Geography teaching and learning by drawing on a case study of a summer school organised during the COVID-19 pandemic. Deep Mapping was used to foster deep learning among the students and teach them about a distant place and people. The exercise tasked the students to work on the creation of layered maps…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Geography, Summer Schools, COVID-19
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Waterhouse, Monica – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
This article maps critical literacies conceptually and empirically in the context of adult immigrant language classrooms. It begins by describing Deleuze and Guattari's cartographic approach. Then it traces critical literacies situated conceptually within a Freirean paradigm before mapping them differently through the Deleuzian-informed Multiple…
Descriptors: Cartography, Immigrants, Critical Literacy, Adult Education
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Jacobs, Dale; Adams, Hollie; Morris, Janine – Composition Studies, 2010
English 302: Writing about the Arts is a practicum course offered at the University of Windsor for upper-level English undergraduate students. The course asks students to write about a variety of art forms and requires engagement with multiple genres of writing as a way for students to effectively order their experiences, reconstruct meaning in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Universities, Undergraduate Students, Content Area Writing
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Felleman, John, Ed. – Government Information Quarterly, 1990
Six papers on geographic information systems cover the future of geographic information systems, land information systems modernization in Wisconsin, the Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (TIGER) System of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems and sustainable development,…
Descriptors: Cartography, Census Figures, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Brown, Robert S.; Baird, William; Rosolen, Lisa – 1999
In January 1998, seven school boards amalgamated to form the Toronto District School Board, a board responsible for 600 schools. To deal with the complexities of the new entity, researchers have been using geographical information systems (GIS). GIS are computer-based tools for mapping. They store information as a collection of thematic layers or…
Descriptors: Cartography, Computer Uses in Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection
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Simpson, Leanne R.; Driben, Paul – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2000
A land use mapping study in an Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) Indian Reserve in northern Ontario attempted to satisfy the demands of both academic and Aboriginal communities. Community elders provided extensive knowledge of the local environment, its history and cultural and spiritual significance, and the links between environmental and community…
Descriptors: American Indians, Canada Natives, Cartography, Chippewa (Tribe)
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McRae, Jane – Green Teacher, 1998
Mapping is a means of experiencing a community's features that engages the mapmaker. Getting to know the community by drawing maps and learning about past and present inhabitants was the methodology for introducing local content into the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classroom. This model for mapping was used with adult and high school ESL…
Descriptors: Adults, Cartography, Class Activities, Community Characteristics