How Students Learn or Heaps of Unanswered Questions
Spatial Learning
We learn by studying and using representatations of our environment, primarily maps but also photographs, written descriptions and narratives. We therefore learn also by examining spatial relationships second-handedly. We rely upon abstract representations of our environment.
Through formal education involving map work, use of instructional materials, we begin to prescribe the processes for gaining knowledge or changing attitudes. Teachers control and guide in-school processses. (Source : )
Map Learning
Formal Geography Training
Affective geography Learning
Some important Research Studies
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'How Geographers Learn about How People Learn Geography' by Roger Downs
As animals functioning in our spatial environments, we are all born geographers. We develop a sense of awareness of our surroundings at an early age, forming mental representatations or cognitive maps of real-world space which influences how we get along in the business of life.