Objectives
SPACIT aims at providing teachers with the relevant education to support active Spatial Citizenship in the classroom through providing the following measures:
- Production of an up-to-date online reader on the geoinformation society, the technological basics, its social implications and economical effects for individuals
- Development of a competence model and a curriculum for an increased participation in the geoinformation society through Spatial Citizenship
- Creation of materials for teachers to actively learn / teach Spatial Citizenship skills and competences to pupils
Activities
- Research and creation of scientific book: Society, space and the geoinformation age in school education
- Creation of a curriculum for Spatial Citizenship
- Creation of an online course and didactic materials
Results
- Society, space and the geoinformation age in school education – Scientific book
- Dimensions of GI Society – Online Report
- Geoinformation Society – Leaflet
- Curriculum for Spatial Citizenship education – Online Report
- Final course materials for Spatial Citizenship Education
- Final SPACIT Online Course
Partners
- Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS at University of Salzburg (Austria, coordinator)
- EUROGEO (United Kingdom)
- Fatih University (Turkey)
- Friedrich-Schiller – Universität Jena (Germany)
- University of Koblenz Landau (Germany)
- Bundesgymnasium und Bundesrealgymnasium (Germany)
- KARS Laundau (Germany)
- Colegiul National (Romania)
- European Youth Parliament (United Kingdom)
- National Council for Geographic Education, Washington DC (United States)
- Center for Spatial Information Science, The University of Tokyo (Japan)
