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Luchetta, Sara – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2018
Drawing from the importance of narrative inquiry in contemporary geographical reasoning and teaching, this paper focuses on some practices set around the relationship between maps and literature. Reader-generated maps, maps produced starting from the reading of a literary text, are at the core of a reflection on the potentialities of literary…
Descriptors: Creative Activities, Reading Achievement, Concept Mapping, Geography Instruction

Sowden, Steve; And Others – Journal of Geography, 1996
Reports on the ability of preschool age children to interpret a black-and-white aerial photograph and to solve a simulated navigation problem on the photo. By placing the problem in a story context with personal reference points, the children were able to identify landscape features and solve simple problems. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cartography, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes

Wiegand, Patrick; Stiell, Bernadette – British Educational Research Journal, 1997
Reports on a study where 111 primary age children were asked to map four model landscapes of increasing complexity. The results show an age-related progression from representing hills in elevation only to early experiments with the use of contours. Includes maps, graphs, and statistical data. (MJP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Age Groups, Cartography, Cognitive Development