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标题：CHILDREN’S MAP READING ABILITIES IN RELATION TO DISTANCE PERCEPTION, TRAVEL TIME AND LANDSCAPE
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作者：Ekaterini P. APOSTOLOPOULOU ; Aikaterini KLONARI
期刊名称：European Journal of Geography
印刷版ISSN：1792-1341
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：35-47
出版社：EUROGEO
摘要：Children’s cognition of distance is influenced by functional distance and estimations of traveltime which increases with the presence of natural or artificial barriers. In this paper weinvestigate pupil’s associations of landscape and travel time in a map reading task of equaldistance target cities. More than 330 11 year old pupils attending the fifth grade from 18public primary schools located in city and rural areas participated in a research with the use ofa 3D relief map of central Greece for decision making activities relating travel time togeomorphologic barriers. We hypothesized that pupils from city areas would design straightline routes regardless of the physical landscape influenced by the linear and rectangularoutlines of city environments in opposition to pupils living in rural areas that would designcurved routes according to the landscape. The results indicate that children relate landformswith travel time by identifying physical obstacles on the map. Pupils that selected the city ofdestination correctly justified their answers by identifying geomorphologic features on themap. However, the performance of urban pupils outpaces rural pupils’ performancepostulating that the quality and quantity of educational resources in city areas may influencepositively spatial cognition
关键词：route selection; route depiction; morphological barriers; 3D relief map