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International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education | 2009

Learning with geoinformation in German schools: systematic integration with a GIS competency model

Jan Christoph Schubert; Rainer Uphues

While the application of geoinformation (GI) in German schools is becoming increasingly important, a systematic integration in school curricula, arranged in a cumulative and competence-oriented manner, is still lacking. Here the authors discuss existing approaches to the problem and propose a learning strategy based on the stepwise gain of GI skills. The suggested competence model is substantiated by an integrated set of teaching units, structured both hierarchically and by the type of conveyed skill. An additionally provided flowchart serves as a general guideline for the development and implementation of local GI curricula.


International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education | 2013

What are the constraints to GIS usage? Selected results of a teacher survey about constraints in the school context

Steffen Höhnle; Jan Christoph Schubert; Rainer Uphues

In this paper selected results of a survey about constraints to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) usage including 410 participating teachers in Germany are presented. The results show that especially the lack of regular teacher practice in handling the software, the lack of classroom time and the lack of simple and copyable lessons including GIS are considered the biggest constraints. As regards potential factors of influence, the teachers private usage of a desktop GIS software combined with his general computer literacy proves to be the decisive predictor for school usage of GIS.


International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education | 2013

Young people’s world-mindedness and the global dimension in their geography education : a comparative study of upper secondary school students’ ideas in Finland, Germany and the Netherlands

Tine Béneker; Sirpa Tani; Rainer Uphues; Rob van der Vaart

Geography is one of the most important school subjects for the development of global awareness and international understanding. Curricular concepts and pedagogical strategies for developing global awareness through geography abound. What is largely unknown, however, is how young people make sense of the world in which they are growing up and if this has any relationship with their geography education.


International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education | 2013

Which children can find a way through a strange town using a streetmap? - results of an empirical study on children’s orientation competence

Ingrid Hemmer; Michael Hemmer; Katja Kruschel; Eva Neidhardt; Gabriele Obermaier; Rainer Uphues

This article relates about some results of an interdisciplinary research project analyzing influencing factors of childrens spatial orientation competence in real space carried out by geography educators and psychologists. The focus is on the concept of representation as a theoretical foundation. The research design for collecting data of independent and dependent variables (map-based orientation competence, MBO), and the self-developed measuring instrument are explained. Altogether, 328 pupils of third, fourth, and fifth grade (aged 8–12 years) were tested. The orientation competence of children in strange spaces was slightly above the average, and grew with age. The most spectacular increase was detected on the transition from third to fourth grade. Additionally, boys scored higher than girls. The results also showed that along with age and gender, spatial intelligence (mental rotation) and previous knowledge shape MBO. A limited influence can be attributed to self-concept and previous experiences, while interest has no influence on MBO at all.


Education 3-13 | 2015

The Influence of Children's Prior Knowledge and Previous Experience on Their Spatial Orientation Skills in an Urban Environment.

Ingrid Hemmer; Michael Hemmer; Eva Neidhardt; Gabriele Obermaier; Rainer Uphues; Katja Wrenger

This study investigates the capacity of children to develop map-based skills in spatial orientation in an urban environment unknown to them. In this quantitative study, a total of 328 pupils of grades 3–5 had to achieve specific skills with regard to map-based skills in spatial orientation (such as turning-off skills, transformation from map to place, finding ones direction, navigation). These skills were tested by means of a map of Münster (Westphalia, Germany). This paper focuses on factors of potential influence, such as prior knowledge in the field of map reading as well as family- and school-related previous experience.


Archive | 2008

Räumliche Orientierung : Eine empirische Untersuchung zur Relevanz des Kompetenzbereichs aus der Perspektive der Gesellschaft und der Experten

Ingrid Hemmer; Michael Hemmer; Gabriele Obermaier; Rainer Uphues


Archive | 2012

Einflussfaktoren auf die kartengestützte Orientierungskompetenz von Kindern in einer ihnen unbekannten Stadt - Format einer geographiedidaktischen Studie im Realraum

Ingrid Hemmer; Michael Hemmer; Eva Neidhardt; Gabriele Obermaier; Rainer Uphues; Katja Wrenger


Archive | 2012

Kartengestützte Orientierungskompetenz von Schülern im Realraum : Empirische Erkenntnisse und Konsequenzen für den Unterricht

Gabriele Obermaier; Ingrid Hemmer; Michael Hemmer; Eva Neidhardt; Rainer Uphues; Katja Wrenger


Archive | 2012

Zur Relevanz ausgewählter personenbezogener Einflussfaktoren auf die kartengestützte Orientierungskompetenz

Ingrid Hemmer; Michael Hemmer; Katja Kruschel; Eva Neidhardt; Gabriele Obermaier; Rainer Uphues


Archive | 2010

Factors influencing children´s map based orientation in an unknown city

Eva Neidhardt; Ingrid Hemmer; Michael Hemmer; Katja Kruschel; Gabriele Obermaier; Rainer Uphues

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Ingrid Hemmer

Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

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Eva Neidhardt

University of Koblenz and Landau

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Steffen Höhnle

University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

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