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Article: Maps and map learning in social studies.(Research and Practice)
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- Social Education
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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"Research & Practice," established early in 2001, features educational research that is directly relevant to the work of classroom teachers. Here, I invited geographer Sarah Bednarz and her colleagues to summarize the research on teaching and learning with maps in the social studies curriculum.--Walter C. Parker, "Research and Practice" Editor, University of Washington, Seattle
Maps are not the whole of geography, but there can be no geography without them. In fact, well-known geographers have often defined their subject around maps and map use. In 1939, Richard Hartshorne stated, "So important is the use of maps in geographic work that ... it seems fair to ...