Learning and teaching with outdoor cartographic displays: a visual approach
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This article examines the intersection of visual studies and map studies within the academic didactics ofcultural geography. In particular, it suggests that the practice of photographing outdoor cartographic signsemerging from the ordinary urbanscape might provide teachers with a playful way to introduce theirstudents to theoretical speculation on the ontology and the practice of maps. Photographic portraits ofpublic maps stationed in specific contexts could also be used to teach about cultural and socialrepresentations of places and landscapes.References
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