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Ana María Marqués Ibáñez – Art Education, 2024
Maps offer a means of visual communication that facilitates the understanding of space, geography, and social phenomena. Meanwhile, "cartography" refers to the science of collecting and analyzing data for the purpose of defining and representing geographic measurements of territorial areas graphically at a reduced scale on maps (Wigen…
Descriptors: Art, Cartography, Teacher Education, Art Education
Estefan, Michel; Seim, Josh – Teaching Sociology, 2022
There has been a growing number of calls to improve theory instruction in sociology. These conversations have focused on what instructors should teach (with a renewed emphasis on racism and sexism) and whom to teach (with calls to diversify the reading list), but comparatively little attention has been placed on how social theory should be taught.…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Sociology, Student Centered Learning, Concept Mapping
Locklear, Amy Lee M. – Honors in Practice, 2022
By incorporating visual mapping into students' thinking and writing processes, a narrative assignment in geo-literacy creates a reflective and agency-based learning experience for student writers in a first-year honors seminar.
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, First Year Seminars, College Freshmen, Visual Literacy
Rizou, Ourania; Klonari, Aikaterini – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2016
In the 21st century, the age of information and technology, there is an increasing importance to statistical literacy for everyday life. In addition, education innovation and globalisation in the past decade in Europe has resulted in a new perceived complexity of reality that affected the curriculum and statistics education, with a shift from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Visual Aids, Statistical Data, Geography Instruction
Barney, Timothy – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2009
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of state socialism in Eastern and Central Europe, cartographers were faced with choices on how the new post-Cold War political landscape would be mapped. One such group called the Pluto Project had been producing atlases since 1981 with a progressive point of view about the nature of state power…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, World History, Social Change, Cartography
McCormick, Katherine M.; Stricklin, Sarintha; Nowak, Theresa M.; Rous, Beth – Young Exceptional Children, 2008
As professionals and families work together to identify and celebrate the strengths and resources unique to each family, new and innovative ways to describe and discuss family characteristics are needed. The eco-map, borrowed from social science disciplines, is one method used to describe family strengths and resources. The eco-map was developed…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Family Characteristics, Visual Aids, Social Networks
Coombs, James – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1981
Provides a guide for librarians to use in selecting globes by discussing how globes are made, types of globes, special and extraterrestrial globes, selecting criteria, and comparing such features as aesthetic appeal, readability, and currency of political information. A list of globe manufacturers and a selected bibliography are provided. (CHC)
Descriptors: Cartography, Costs, Library Acquisition, Library Material Selection
Ranson, Clare – 1996
Maps have been used as an illustrative device in children's books for a long time; however, they are an area of illustration that has been largely ignored by critics. Maps are most commonly used as frontispiece illustrations in adventure and fantasy books. They have also generally been aimed at the male reader when children's books were marketed…
Descriptors: Cartography, Childrens Literature, Fantasy, Fiction
Tenopir, Carol; Cibbarelli, Pamela – 1978
The design and implementation of a complete, computerized retrieval system for the engineering and architectural drawings and maps of several large land development firms are discussed. Such collections present unique problems to the cataloger. Each collection is limited in geographic scope to the land owned or developed by the firm; types of maps…
Descriptors: Architectural Drafting, Building Plans, Cartography, Cataloging
Smith, Alan D. – 1979
The computer packages of PLOTALL, SYMAP, SURFACE II, QUSMO, QUSMO2, QUCRS, and QUTAB are commercially available plotting programs that provide aids for visualizing spatial distributed data and concepts. The incremental drum and line printer plots communicate often vast and difficult-to-interpret tabular data with or without geographic coordinates.…
Descriptors: Cartography, Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Concept Formation

Kirchner, James Gary; Searight, Thomas Kay – Journal of Geological Education, 1989
Gives driving directions for a circuitous route while asking the drivers to make observations, measurements, interpretations and to locate features. Includes an example for the LaSalle Quadrangle, Illinois, which takes about one hour to complete. (Author/MVL)
Descriptors: Cartography, College Science, Geographic Location, Geography

Rittschof, Kent A.; And Others – Journal of Geography, 1996
Maintains that region familiarity is an important prerequisite in the instructional use of cartograms. Cartograms are value-by-area maps that increase or decrease areas in order to illustrate various data (e.g. book reading in the western United States). Discusses necessary cognitive processes for the visualization of data. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cartography, Cognitive Structures, Cues, Encoding (Psychology)