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Article: Pre-teenage children's vernacular perception and experience of maps in Hong Kong
Title | Pre-teenage children's vernacular perception and experience of maps in Hong Kong |
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Keywords | Geography environmental studies education |
Issue Date | 1999 |
Publisher | Channel View Publications. The Journal's web site is located at http://multilingual-matters.com/multi/journals/journals_irgee.asp |
Citation | International Research In Geographical And Environmental Education, 1999, v. 8 n. 1, p. 5-25 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper reports a questionnaire study conducted with a group of 87 pre-teenage children (age 11-12 years) in Hong Kong to show their vernacular perception and experience of maps before they began formal mapwork learning in their first year of secondary education. This study reveals major findings that these pre-teenage children see the main purpose of using maps is to find unfamiliar places and to locate them in most everyday situations. As a result, they like to deal with practical, real maps such as street maps and the MTR (Mass Transit Railway) transport maps where the above-mentioned practical map purpose can be achieved. Most of these pre-teenage children are aware of maps available in their surroundings. However, they may not be observant enough to notice or pay attention to reading them carefully. It is rather a matter of map awareness that puts these pre-teenage children into the two broad groups of map and non-map-users. It also revealed that even those pre-teenage children who claimed to be non-map-users demonstrated some intuitive superficial understanding of simple map concepts and elements. Teachers are strongly encouraged to tap into the intuitions and experiences possessed by pre-teenage children in order to develop their map interest further in geography lessons and to make the understanding of maps a practical life skill for them to master. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/42078 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 1.9 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.818 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Kwan, T | en_HK |
dc.date.accessioned | 2007-01-08T02:28:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2007-01-08T02:28:23Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1999 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.citation | International Research In Geographical And Environmental Education, 1999, v. 8 n. 1, p. 5-25 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issn | 1038-2046 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/42078 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper reports a questionnaire study conducted with a group of 87 pre-teenage children (age 11-12 years) in Hong Kong to show their vernacular perception and experience of maps before they began formal mapwork learning in their first year of secondary education. This study reveals major findings that these pre-teenage children see the main purpose of using maps is to find unfamiliar places and to locate them in most everyday situations. As a result, they like to deal with practical, real maps such as street maps and the MTR (Mass Transit Railway) transport maps where the above-mentioned practical map purpose can be achieved. Most of these pre-teenage children are aware of maps available in their surroundings. However, they may not be observant enough to notice or pay attention to reading them carefully. It is rather a matter of map awareness that puts these pre-teenage children into the two broad groups of map and non-map-users. It also revealed that even those pre-teenage children who claimed to be non-map-users demonstrated some intuitive superficial understanding of simple map concepts and elements. Teachers are strongly encouraged to tap into the intuitions and experiences possessed by pre-teenage children in order to develop their map interest further in geography lessons and to make the understanding of maps a practical life skill for them to master. | en_HK |
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dc.language | eng | en_HK |
dc.publisher | Channel View Publications. The Journal's web site is located at http://multilingual-matters.com/multi/journals/journals_irgee.asp | en_HK |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education | en_HK |
dc.rights | The article has been published by International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education | en_HK |
dc.subject | Geography environmental studies education | en_HK |
dc.title | Pre-teenage children's vernacular perception and experience of maps in Hong Kong | en_HK |
dc.type | Article | en_HK |
dc.identifier.openurl | http://library.hku.hk:4550/resserv?sid=HKU:IR&issn=1038-2046&volume=8&issue=1&spage=5&epage=25&date=1999&atitle=Pre-teenage+Children%27s+Vernacular+Perception+and+Experience+of+Maps+in+Hong+Kong | en_HK |
dc.identifier.email | Kwan, T: tylkwan@hkucc.hku.hk | en_HK |
dc.identifier.authority | Kwan, T=rp00913 | en_HK |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-0032810557 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 42831 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 8 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.spage | 5 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.epage | 25 | en_HK |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | en_HK |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Kwan, T=9240378600 | en_HK |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1038-2046 | - |