{"product_id":"thinking-with-maps-understanding-the-world-through-spatialization-hardcover","title":"Thinking with Maps: Understanding the World Through Spatialization - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBertram C. Bruce\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2022 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice Reviews \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eOutstanding Academic Title\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpatial reasoning, which promises connection across wide areas, is itself ironically often not connected to other areas of knowledge. \u003ci\u003eThinking with Maps: Understanding the World through Spatialization \u003c\/i\u003eaddresses this problem, developing its argument through historical analysis and cross-disciplinary examples involving maps. The idea of \u003ci\u003emaps \u003c\/i\u003ehere includes traditional cartographic representations of physical environments, but more broadly encompasses the wide variety of ways that visualizations are used across all disciplines to enable understanding, to generate new knowledge, and to effect change.\u003cbr\u003eThe idea of \u003ci\u003ethinking with maps \u003c\/i\u003eis also used broadly. Maps become, not simply one among many items to learn about, but indispensable tools for thinking across every field of inquiry, in a way similar to that of textual and mathematical language. Effective use of maps becomes a way to make knowledge, much as writing or mathematical exploration not only displays ideas, but also creates them. The book shows that maps for thinking are not just a means to improve geographic knowledge, as valuable as that may be. Instead, they provide mechanisms for rejuvenating our engagement with the world, helping us to become more capable of facing our global challenges.\u003cbr\u003eThis book has a broader aim: It is fundamentally about general principles of how we learn and know. It calls for a renewed focus on democratic education in which both the means and ends are democratic. Education, just as the political realm, should follow Dewey's dictum that \"democratic ends need democratic methods for their realization.\" Maps and mapping are invaluable in that endeavor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBertram C. Bruce has a PhD in computer science and is professor emeritus in information science at the University of Illinois.\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eHe has worked on education in many countries, across grade levels, and in diverse areas of the curriculum. Hi\u003cb\u003es\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eEducation's Ecosystems: Learning through Life.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53680203694387,"sku":"9781475859287","price":205.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/qDxFp1pmEH9781475859287.webp?v=1784413162","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/thinking-with-maps-understanding-the-world-through-spatialization-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}