标题: Understanding higher education students' developing perceptions of geocapabilities through the creation of story maps with geographical information systems

作者: Tian, J (Tian, Jing); Koh, JHL (Koh, Joyce Hwee Ling); Ren, C (Ren, Chang); Wang, YH (Wang, Yiheng)

来源出版物: BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY 卷: 53 期: 3 页: 687-705 DOI: 10.1111/bjet.13176 出版年: MAY 2022

摘要: The technical skills of using geographical information systems (GIS) are often taught in different higher education disciplines apart from geocapabilities or geographic disciplinary expertise. Theorised to include capabilities such as spatial thinking, geographical imagination and structured ways to explore places, the concept of geocapabilities has been developed from educator perspectives but student perspectives have yet to be empirically examined. Drawing upon recommendations that students can better acquire geocapabilities through research and authentic problem-solving, this study examines how 27 higher education students' perceptions of geocapabilities evolved as they learnt technical skills of web mapping through investigating real-world issues with ArcGIS StoryMaps. Content analyses of students' pre- and post-class reflections suggest that students' perceptions aligned with existing theorisations of geocapabilties in areas such as spatial thinking and geographical imagination. However. students also perceived that geographers need curiosity, interest, enthusiasm, and love for geography, and generic skills for working and living in the world that are not geography-related. Through making story maps with GIS, students' perceptions of geocapabilities shifted significantly in the areas of geographical practice and application. geographical imagination and interdisciplinarity. The implications of these findings for higher education teaching of GIS and how it informs the theorisation of geocapabilities are discussed.

入藏号: WOS:000783276000014

语言: English

文献类型: Article

作者关键词: geocapabilities; geographical information systems; geospatial technology; story maps

地址: [Tian, Jing; Ren, Chang; Wang, Yiheng] Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, Wuhan, Peoples R China.

[Koh, Joyce Hwee Ling] Univ Otago, Higher Educ Dev Ctr, Dunedin, New Zealand.

[Ren, Chang] Wuhan Univ, State Key Lab Informat Engn Surveying Mapping & R, Wuhan, Peoples R China.

通讯作者地址: Ren, C; Wang, YH (通讯作者)，Wuhan Univ, Sch Resource & Environm Sci, Wuhan, Peoples R China.

电子邮件地址: imrc@whu.edu.cn; wangshulingxiao@whu.edu.cn

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