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  • Diversity of approaches to using geoinformatics in public education: the case of Slovenia
    Krevs, Marko, 1963-
    Since 1980s several documents have been produced to define the broad field of and many specific topics about geographic information systems and geographical information science. These works, ... including a growing number of textbooks, served as guidelines and resources to educators, mainly in higher, but increasingly also in lower levels of education. Could it be expected that because of this geoinformatics is taught in quite a similar way all over the Europe? Of course not. Geoinformatic contents have been implanted in diverse educational programmes and have consequently grown in diverse directions and at very different pace. In spring 2008 a Herodot's "GIS expert meeting" in Madrid has resulted in a draft document trying to define the expected geoinformatic competences and learning outcomes in secondary school, undergraduate and graduate level of higher education in Europe. Selected statements from this draft document have been evaluated by teachers and other professional users of geoinformatics from different levels and different fields of education in Slovenia. Some of the results of this study will be presented in the paper to highlight the specific situation in the country, and to serve as background for further discussions about diversity of geoinformatics in European educational context.
    Type of material - conference contribution ; adult, serious
    Publish date - 2009
    Language - english
    COBISS.SI-ID - 39915362