Thinking with Maps: Understanding the World through Spatialization - Paperback

by Bertram C. Bruce (Author)

Thinking with Maps takes readers on a journey through both traditional and modern mapping in order to learn how to conceive of mapping as fundamental to cognition and, thus, to what it means to be human. Each chapter considers an aspect of how we use maps. Examples from around the world show how learning can be made more relevant.

Author Biography

Bertram C. Bruce has a PhD in computer science and is professor emeritus in information science at the University of Illinois. He has worked on education in many countries, across grade levels, and in diverse areas of the curriculum. His work contributes to a tradition of democratic education, asking "How can we guide the educational enterprise by an ethical vision, not simply a technocratic one of transmitting isolated facts and skills?" His most recent book is Education's Ecosystems: Learning through Life.