A presentation at the Russian Teachers Day held as part of the IGU congress in Moscow, the presentation looks a aspects of spatial learning, sustainable development, Spatial citizenship and futures
1. Creating Powerful Geography
a toolkit for spatial learning
Karl Donert, President EUROGEO,
Director: European Centre of Excellence: digital-
earth.eu
eurogeomail@yahoo.co.uk
2. Why is geography relevant?
221/08/2015
Geo- is everywhere
http://www.geo-cube.eu
3. Geography Toolkit
• Spatial Learning
• Sustainability
• Geography and the
Citizen
• Futures
http://www.geo-cube.eu
6. Some spatial questions
London crimes
2012-2013
• Spatial location –where?
• Orientation – where in relation to?
• Process –what is taking place?
• Systems – how is it being affected?
• Surroundings – how does it connect beyond?
• Making decisions – what solutions?
• How can I make a difference?
9. Geography Toolkit
• Spatial Learning
• Sustainability
• Geography and the
Citizen
• Futures
http://www.geo-cube.eu
10. Sustainability Dimension
Sustainability =
• Complex, dynamic and geographical
• Political, social, economic and
environmental
• Critical issues – poverty, climate, energy,
oceans
• People = resilience and adaptation
11. Providing crucial links between nature
and society
Nature: Physical equations
Describe processes
Society: Decisions on how to
Use the Earth´s resources
17. 17
Competences and spatial citizenship
Gryl I, Jekel T and Donert K, (2010), GI & Spatial Citizenship, In Jekel T, Donert K, Koller A and Vogler R,
Learning with GeoInformation V, Berlin, Wichman Verlag
Spatial Citizenship
18. Theoretical approach and core dimension of Spatial Citizenship
preconditions for SPACIT
focus on web tools
technical skills
knowledge about variety
counter mapping
communities in web2.0
expression,
communication,
negotiation
deconstruction
hypothesis construction
awareness about life-
world consequences Gryl & Jekel (2012)
Spatial Citizenship
19. Theoretical approach and core dimension of Spatial Citizenship
preconditions for SPACIT
focus on web tools
technical skills
knowledge about variety
counter mapping
communities in web2.0
expression,
communication,
negotiation
deconstruction
hypothesis construction
awareness about life-
world consequences Gryl & Jekel (2012)
Spatial Citizenship
SPACIT teacher training course
free materials available from
http://www.spatialcitizenship.org
20. SPACIT summary
Constructivist
• we actively construct our own citizenship
• SPACIT stresses active participation and interaction
Intercultural
• considers diversity – in ideas, values and behaviours
Built on dialogue
• negotiation – communication - appropriation of space
• empowerment to participate in the debate about the sort
of future society we need to create
Technological – digital geo-media and the citizen
Donert K (2008), Examining the relationship between Citizenship and Geography Education, 73-92, in Lambrinos N
and Reliou M (Eds.), European Geography Education: the challenges of a new era, Arlington, W Virginia, National
Council for Geographic Education
23. Geography Toolkit
• Spatial Learning
• Sustainability
• Geography and the
Citizen
• Futures
http://www.geo-cube.eu
24. Educational futures
(Hicks, 2012 )
Do we have the power to decide on what kind of
future society we want to create?
Geography education needs to:
• develop critical thinking skills to accurately assess
our present situation
• stimulate creative thought on which alternative
futures we want
• equip citizens to make choices on the basis of
accurate information
Hicks, D. (2012). The future only arrives when things look dangerous: Reflections on
futures education in the UK. Futures, 44(1), 4-13.
29. Economic Value of Geospatial
Data (Arup Dasgupta, 2013)
Dusgupta A (2013), Economic Value of Geospatial Data: The great enabler http://tinyurl.com/nj9fbj2
30. Geography as powerful
knowledge (in the Anthropocene)
Geography encourages,
• ‘world knowledge’: deep, descriptive and explanatory
• the development of the relational thinking that
underpins geographical thought
• a propensity to think about social, economic and
environmental futures (Lambert, 2013)
Lambert, D. (2013). Geography in school and a curriculum of survival. Theory
and Research in Education, 11(1), 85-98.