Geospatial Technologies in Geography Education

Part I: Spatial thinking and web-GIS.

Chapter 1: Infusing Educational Practice with Web GIS (Joseph J. Kerski and Thomas R. Baker)

Chapter 2: Spatial Thinking Ability Acquisition through Geospatial Technologies for Lifelong Learning (Alfonso García de la Vega)

Chapter 4: Relational geospatial technologies and geospatial challenges of the XXI century (Viktor Chabaniuk and Leonid Rudenko)

Part II: Geospatial technologies for education in non-formal contexts

Chapter 5: YouthMetre: open data to empower young people and to engage youth people in democracy and policy making (Karl Donert, Rafael de Miguel González and Alessio Luppi)

Chapter 6: Contributions from Informal Geography to close the gap in Geographic Information communication in a digital world(Gerson Beltrán and Jorge del Río)

Chapter 7: EarthCaching as a possible way to raise environmental awareness? (Stefanie Zecha)

Part III: Geospatial technologies for education: practices and case studies

Chapter 9: Using computer games to mitigate disaffected emotions in the geography classroom. Lessons learned from small-scale research on teaching sustainable spatial planning with Minecraft (Mark Opmeer, Anne Faber, Eduardo Simão da Graca Dias and Henk Scholten)

Chapter 10: The Role of Geography and Geospatial Technologies in 'Taking on the World' (Mary Fargher)

Chapter 11: Geographies of the Anthropocene: Geoethics and Disaster Risk Reduction tools applied to Mediterranean case studies (Francesco De Pascale, Sebastiano D'Amico, Loredana Antronico and Roberto Coscarelli)

Chapter 12: GIS in secondary education in Hungary. Experiences in lessons and in a study group (Krisztina Dékány)