Geographic school cartography
The Geographical school cartography represents that part of branch of school cartography whose main tasks curriculum conceptual and editorial development and age-appropriate cartographic media for the Geographieunterricht (middle and upper) and for the social studies classes (lower level) and the development of interpretive material and practice aids for skills development in the card usage educate for teachers and students.
This interdisciplinary school cartography sub-discipline developed during the 1970s and 1980s in the GDR from the geographical methodical area of school cartography. Through increasingly intensive cooperation between institutions of publishing cartography and popular education as well as through the close interweaving of methodologies of geography and local history lessons, of geography and cartography, this school cartography area formed into an interdisciplinary branch of science with a clear elementary and functional structure and with a clearly defined field of research a sub-discipline of theoretical cartography with pedagogical practical relevance and effectiveness. Its scientific-disciplinary position and its structural structure were first publicly defined and presented at the 4th GDR Geographers' Congress in 1985 in Gotha / Thuringia.
The goal and purpose of school cartography to pedagogical practice meant that school geographic cartography with its field of action became predominantly an integral part of the methodology of geography teaching . In the lap of its special field of application, it consolidated itself into a largely independent school cartographic sub-discipline, a “special cartography”.
The methodology of geography teaching at the University of Education in Potsdam has established itself as a research center for geographic school cartography , supplemented by partial studies of the research areas of the same name at the University of Halle and the Dresden University of Education . There were close working contacts with the VEB Hermann Haack Gotha and the VEB Kartografischer Dienst Potsdam , particularly in the development work coordinated centrally by the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences (APW) in Berlin .
The basic scientific structure of geographic school cartography remained largely intact even after 1990, despite re-profiling, even if the scope of action today (2009) has become more extensive and diverse, in particular due to the accelerated development of interdisciplinary cartographic teaching materials . Their scientific home is today in the German Society for Cartography (DGfK), but the content is didactic-cartographically oriented.
In the "digital modern age", cartography is understood as a geoscience with great social importance. “Cartography must admit to the leadership position of a spatial communication discipline and further expand this role in the geosciences” (Kappas 2006, p. 238).
In the near future, geography teachers in general schools will also expect more targeted tasks in map work , supplemented by map use activities in specialist teaching and in the subject of history.
literature
- Bormann, Werner and Fischer, Hans Richard: Development, status and tasks of geographical cartography in Germany. In: Petermann Geographische Mitteilungen, H. 3/1956, pp. 235–243.
- Breetz, Egon: Development of the geographical school cartography in the former GDR. In: Wiener Schriften zur Geographie und Kartographie, Vol. 5 (Vienna 1992), pp. 133–143.
- Kappas, Martin: On the position of cartography in the geosciences. In: Cartographic News. Specialized journal for geographic information and visualization, issue 5/2006, pp. 235–238.
- Ogrissek, Rudi: Theoretical Cartography. = Study Library Cartography, Vol. 1, Gotha 1987, 304 pp.
- Pustkowski, Reginald: The development of geographical cartography in the GDR. In: Vermessungstechnik, H. 1/1970, pp. 27–31.
- Stocks, Theodor: Border problems between original cartography and geographical cartography. In: Kartogr. Studies (Haack Festschrift). Gotha 1957, pp. 25-34.
Atlases
- Harms Weltatlas (regional editions of Verlag Schroedel from 1992 ff.)
- Alexander Schulatlas (regional editions of the Klett-Perthes publishing house from 2009 ff.)
- People - times - spaces (geography - history - social studies, regional editions of the Cornelsen publishing house from 2006 ff.)
- Atlas for the orientation level - history and geography (regional editions of the Cornelsen & Schroedel publishers from 1990 ff.)
- Westermann History Atlas (Westermann Verlag from 1989 ff.)