Hacked Landscapes: Tensions,Borders, and Positionality in Spatial Literacy

By focusing on critical geographies, landscape, and spatial literacy, this article evaluates a semester-long spatial justice project conducted in a preservice teacher education program. The analysis recognizes the limitations of reading the products literally as a means of comprehending spatial representation. It expands the analysis by hacking the products and producing new landscapes to read against or up against the products as sociospatial texts. It considers the deployment of landscape concepts—borders, the representation of tension, and the gaze and subjectivity of the reader-authors—as central elements of spatial literacy that is of consequence.     

改进移动搜索算法的教育资源可达性分析

针对现有教育资源可达性主题研究不足的现状,文章通过量化分析入学时间成本,对深圳市福田区小学服务范围进行划定,并结合现有学区划分,以移动搜索算法为基础,针对实际择校机制引入Huff模型进行算法改进,对小学可达性进行量化评价。实验结果表明,该方法可以实现对研究区小学布局的科学评价,为学校选址规划提供合理的建议。     

Toward a Typology of Changes in Primary Teachers' Awareness of Geography Based on Receiving Graduate Education

This study illuminates the effects of graduate education on primary teachers' awareness of geography. Data were collected through interviews with twenty-one teachers who held M.A. or Ph.D. degrees in geography and analyzed using Straussian-grounded theory. The participants were categorized into four types. Many teachers (type A) showed meaningful refinement in their awareness of geography, and some of them (type B and C) identified themselves as experts in primary geography. However, a few participants (type D) showed only marginal development of their geographic knowledge. These results suggest the potential for improvements to graduate education in primary geography and for primary teachers.     

From EDUPUNK to Open Policy: Critical Technology Praxis within Higher Education

Emerging less than a decade ago, the term EDUPUNK sought to encapsulate the nascent rebellion against the corporatism and neoliberal ideology permeating digital aspects of higher education. A loose association of academic technologists with interests in net neutrality, open source software, hacktivism, and so on, the EDUPUNK movement has also been informing the adoption of various open practices in higher education, including open educational resources (OER). Intriguingly, university administrators and policymakers—attracted by aspects such as increased access and lower costs for students—are taking notice. In this article, I focus on developments from across the state of Virginia to introduce a critical praxis landscape from within higher education. Thus, I showcase some of the opportunities for critical technology praxis within the neoliberal(izing) university.     

中外大学天文学教材评述

大学天文学是高校天文学专业最重要的专业基础课程, 主要 讲授天文学的基础知识和发展全貌, 具有覆盖面广、知识点多的特点. 教材的质量对于帮助学生理解天文学的基本原理和方法、提高学术水平和科学素养起到关键作用. 对于非天文学专业的学生和天文爱好者, 天文学教材也是拓展科学知识和认知宇宙的重要途径. 我国的大学天文学教材建设与欧美发达国家相比在数量和质量上还有不小差距. 梳理了国内外较有代表性的大学天文学教材, 评述其特色、优势和有待改进之处, 比较中外教材在内容和写法上的异同. 通过分析国外优秀教材的编著理念、方法和技巧, 为我国未来天文学教材建设提供参考建议.     

中国中等职业教育空间集聚及其影响因素

基于2000—2016年中国大陆31个省区中等职业教育发展相关统计数据，采用中等职业教育地理集中度、空间自相关分析和地理探测器等方法，探讨了2000年以来中国中等职业教育水平时空分异、空间集聚格局及其影响因素。结果表明：1）2000—2016年中国中等职业教育发展呈倒“U”型变化趋势，地理集中度逐渐提高，省域中等职业教育发展以“缩减型”为主；2）中等职业教育水平及增长呈正空间自相关，空间集聚特征明显，总体呈“西进南移”空间格局，西部是中等职业教育增长热点区，区域均衡性明显提升；3）中等职业教育空间集聚格局的主要影响因素是适龄教育人口和中等职业教育发展条件，经济因素影响相对较弱，不同影响因子交互作用显著，初中毕业生数是主导交互因子，城镇登记失业率、城镇化率逐渐成为次主导交互因子。     

A framework for teaching the timeless way of mapmaking

There are now many opportunities to learn how to make maps through technical training with mapmaking tools, including geographic information systems and web-based mapping services. In cartographic education, two challenges with teaching through practice stem from the disruptive nature of mapmaking tools and the tradition of teaching cartographic principles by rule or convention. This article outlines a framework for a pattern language to organize and share practical information about principles for making maps. The article provides an example pattern for mapmaking and discusses how this framework addresses recurring problems with teaching through practice.     

加强地质教育,为振兴安徽地质工作提供人才支撑

要振兴地质工作,为安徽经济发展提供有力的资源保障,关键靠地质人才。本文从分析安徽地质人才队伍现状和地勘单位人才需求出发,认为必须大力发展地质教育,以解决当前地质人才青黄不接的困难,并为此提出了相应的对策和措施。     

面向矿山型的测绘专业人才培养模式的研究

主要探讨在新时期条件下面向矿山类测绘专业人才培养模式的研究,通过合理设置课程、加强实践教学,科研促进教学等方面工作来建立面向矿山型的测绘专业人才培养模式,探索具有特色的应用型人才培养模式。     

Integrating GIS into the Undergraduate Learning Environment

Abstract

Despite the promise of GIS, substantial barriers have prevented its widespread use in geographic education. Among the key factors are technical impediments stemming from software complexity, pedagogic issues related to the lack of experienced faculty and the shortage of curriculum materials, and systemic issues associated with faculty motivation. This case study describes strategies that were employed for addressing each of these barriers in a large enrollment, multisection world geography course. Successful implementation of those strategies has enabled large numbers of students in classes taught by instructors with no formal GIS experience to spend a substantial amount of time learning geography with the help of simple, easy-to-use GIS software applications.