scholarly journals Revealing map reading strategies of physical geographic maps

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Marketa Beitlova ◽  
Stanislav Popelka
Keyword(s):  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Map Reading

Map Use - Perspectives in Geographic Undergraduate Education

1997 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Derek Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Spatial Reasoning ◽  
Major Elements ◽  
Computer Mapping ◽  
Reasoning Process ◽  
Map Reading ◽  
Map Design

The author introduces junior-level students with no background to various tasks involving maps, computer mapping and GIS as part of a project called Urban World. A concern is how to evaluate the student's learning as well as the products the students produce, whether on paper or electronically. Three challenges are posed to the cartographic community. What can we offer in terms of map reading strategies? Do we have guidelines for good cartographic practice and helpful hints about map design? What research has there been on the complexities of the individualistic analysis and decision-making that are major elements of the spatial reasoning process?

Use of Tactile Maps by Blind and Visually Impaired People

1997 ◽  
pp. 4-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Ungar ◽  
Angeles Espinosa Bayal ◽  
Mark Blades ◽  
Espernaza Ochaita ◽  
Christopher Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Visually Impaired ◽  
Instructional Methods ◽  
Spatial Knowledge ◽  
Verbal Description ◽  
Map Reading ◽  
Blind And Visually Impaired ◽  
Visually Impaired People ◽  
Impaired People ◽  
Tactile Maps

Most research on tactile maps has focused on aspects of map design and methods of construction. Relatively little attention has been paid to theway in which blind and visually impaired people actually use tactile maps for everyday way finding tasks. This paper reports on studies carried out in Madrid and Sheffield which consider how people gain spatial knowledge from tactile maps. In the Madrid study, participants were introduced to an urban area by one of three instructional methods: direct experience, tactile map or verbal description. Those who learned the area with the map were considerably more proficient in following the route unguided than were participants who received the other two instructional methods. However the different methods had little effect on the participants' overall representation of the space. It is possible that the map reading strategies used by the participants were effective for gaining practical route-based knowledge but did not give the participants an overall spatial representation of the area. To explore this possibility further, the Sheffield study considered the effect of individual differences in map reading strategies on the type of mental representation which visually impaired people acquire from a tactile map. It was found that those participants who acquired an accurate and full representation of the map used different map learning strategies from those who performed less well. We suggest implications of these studies for the education and rehabilitation of blind  and visually impaired people.

Real World Map Reading Strategies

2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Perkins ◽  
Ann Gardiner
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Map Reading

Topographische Orientierung bei Patienten mit erworbener Hirnschädigung

1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Martina Kindsmüller ◽  
Andrea Kaindl ◽  
Uwe Schuri ◽  
Alf Zimmer
Keyword(s):  
Brain Damage ◽  
Cognitive Deficits ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Hospital Staff ◽  
Reading Test ◽  
Map Reading ◽  
Several Variables ◽  
Topographical Orientation ◽  
The One ◽  
Behavioral Memory

Topographical Orientation in Patients with Acquired Brain Damage Abstract: A study was conducted to investigate the abilities of topographical orientation in patients with acquired brain damage. The first study investigates the correlation between wayfinding in a hospital setting and various sensory and cognitive deficits as well as the predictability of navigating performance by specific tests, self-rating of orientation ability and rating by staff. The investigation included 35 neuropsychological patients as well as 9 control subjects. Several variables predicted the wayfinding performance reasonably well: memory tests like the one introduced by Muramoto and a subtest of the Rivermead Behavioral Memory Test, the Map Reading Test and the rating by hospital staff. Patients with hemianopia experienced significant difficulty in the task.

Los criterios de textualidad en la hermenéutica de Paul Ricoeur. Un análisis crítico

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrián Bertorello
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Reading Strategies ◽  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
Material Base ◽  
The World ◽  
Paul Ricœur ◽  
Text Writing ◽  
The Way

RESUMENEl trabajo examina críticamente la afirmación central de la hermenéutica de Paul Ricoeur, a saber, que el soporte material de la escritura es el rasgo determinante para que una secuencia discursiva sea considerada como un texto. La escritura cancela las condiciones fácticas de la enunciación y crea, de este modo, un ámbito de sentido estable en el que se puede validar una concepción de la subjetividad que está implicada en las dos estrategias de lecturas (el análisis estructural y la apropiación), esto es, un sujeto pasivo que se constituye por la idealidad del significado. Asimismo, el trabajo intentará precisar una serie de ambigüedades en el uso que Ricoeur hace del «ser en el mundo» para sostener la referencialidad del discurso.PALABRAS CLAVETEXTO, ESCRITURA, REFERENCIA, SUBJETIVIDAD, MUNDOABSTRACTThis paper critically examines the main assertion of Paul Ricoeur´s hermeneutics, i.e., that the material base of writing is the determining feature to consider a discursive sequence as a text. Writing cancels the factual conditions of enunciation and creates, in this way, a background of stable meaning where it is possible to validate a conception of subjectivity implicated in the two reading strategies (the structural analysis and the appropriation), i.e., a passive subject constituted by the ideality of meaning. Likewise, this paper aims to clarify some ambiguities in the way Ricoeur uses the «beings in the world» to support the discourse referentiality.KEY WORDSTEXT, WRITING, REFERENCE, SUBJECTIVITY, WORLD

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