Learning with Geoinformation 2010 - Call for Papers

Special Focus: the role of GI in Spatial Citizenship

Symposium and Vocational Training
Within the framework of GI_Forum

July 7-9, 2010

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The ongoing integration of geoinformation in various aspects of everyday life calls for an adequate use of geoinformation in education. This includes both, a competent use of geoinformation as well as critical reflection of its effects. To address these questions, GI-based learning environments and spatially aware didactics are continuously developed – as well as new methods to teach geoinformatics in higher education.

Within the framework of AGIT 2010 and the international GI-Forum - held at the
same venue - we are offering a fully fledged three days track themed around geoinformation in education. This is a bilingual conference with German- and English-language sessions.

Spatial citizenship forms the necessary foundations of GI-based learning as part of
citizenship education at primary and secondary school levels and in higher education and
training. The focus emphasizes the need to reflect on the role of GI within everyday
appropriation/production of space and its consequences in education. Spatial citizenship
enables pupils to competently make use of and deconstruct spatial information, as well as
actively constructing their world by communicating through and with geoinformation.

Topics can include, but are not limited to

• Spatialities, GIS & GeoWeb
• Power and control exerted by the use of GI
• Issues of spatial privacy
• Critical cartography: Techniques to deconstruct spatial representations
• Techniques to enhance spatial communication through geoweb-technologies
• Pedagogies for spatial citizenship
• Empowerment and action through GI

We invite presentations that explicitly link these discourses to education, therefore contributing to a conception of spatial citizenship that is informed by social theory.

We also invite contributions in one or more of the following categories:

• Conceptions of geoinformation-based learning environments
• Competences acquired through geoinformation-based
• Good practice of learning and teaching with geoinformation
• Evaluation and empirical research on GI-based learning environments
• Public awareness initiatives
• Lifelong Learning and Geoinformatics: GI professionals and teachers

Call for Papers and Stipends (pdf)

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Learning with Geoinformation - Programme Committee

• Adrijana Car (Austrian Academy of Sciences – GI Science)
• Karl Donert (Liverpool Hope University)
• Thomas Jekel (Austrian Academy of Sciences – GI Science)
• Petra Jenewein (Z_GIS, University of Salzburg)
• Tino Johansson (Helsinki University)
• Alfons Koller (PH-Linz)
• Michaela Lindner-Fally (digital:earth:at)
• Monika Reuschenbach (PH Zürich)
• Yvonne Schleicher (PH Weingarten)
• Josef Strobl (Z_GIS, University of Salzburg)
• Claire Jarvis (Unversity of Leicester)
• Christoph Traun (Z_GIS, University of Salzburg)
• Michael Gould (ESRI, Redlands, CA)
• Joseph Kerski, ESRI, Boulder, CO)

For the team of organisers:

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ÖAW-GIScience | University of Salzburg, Austria

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Private University College of Education Linz, Austria

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President EUROGEO
Liverpool Hope University, UK

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