Abstract
This is a research project about maps consisting of different studies about how maps are understood and used in a changing society. There are two main themes in the project. The first is about changes in map knowledge and how map knowledge is valued from a Swedish educational perspective. The second theme is about cognitive aspects of world map projections.
Below are links to project presentations, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers:
- Cognitive Aspects of the Peripheral Continuity of World Map Projections (2014 in Tampa)
- Better Before? Children's Map Knowledge in the 1960s vs. now (2013 in Los Angeles)
- The World Ends where the Map Ends (2012 in New York)
Collaboration
Centre for Teaching and Learning in the Social Sciences (CeSam) and the research group DidaktikDesign.
Researcher
Publications
- Hennerdal, Pontus (2017). Continuity markers as an aid for children in finding the peripheral continuity of world maps. Cartography and Geographic Information Science 44(1), 76-85.
- Hennerdal, Pontus (2016). Changes in place location knowledge: A follow-up study in Arvika, Sweden, 1968 and 2013. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 25(4), 309-327.
- Hennerdal, Pontus (2015). Beyond the periphery: Child and adult understanding of world map continuity. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105(4), 773-790.
- Hennerdal, Pontus (2015). Educational ideas in geography education in Sweden during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: The relationship between maps and texts. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 24(3), 258-272.