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Thommen, Evelyne; Avelar, Silvania; Sapin, Veronique Zbinden; Perrenoud, Silvia; Malatesta, Dominique – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2010
This paper describes a study conducted with 235 children from Brazil and Switzerland. The children, from 5 to 13 years of age, were asked to draw the journey they undertake every day from home to school. The purpose of the study is to understand the relationship between the cognitive development and map-drawing abilities of children in both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Preadolescents, Maps

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