Conceptual mapping of geography textbook content on the example of the desert biome

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.eurogeojournal.eu/showPaper.php?id=16364" target="_blank" >http://www.eurogeojournal.eu/showPaper.php?id=16364</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.48088/ejg.p.tra.13.4.045.064" target="_blank" >10.48088/ejg.p.tra.13.4.045.064</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Conceptual mapping of geography textbook content on the example of the desert biome

Original language description

The aim of this study is to identify the key terms used by textbook authors when presenting desert biomes and, subsequently, to visualise the relationships between them using a conceptual map. To achieve this objective, we assessed geography textbooks using conceptual maps, which can be used to conceptualise this topic. The method used is innovative in textbook research and can be used to present results in a visual form with added value. A total of eleven university students created conceptual maps for each of the five analysed textbooks, and this was followed by a synthesis and comparison of the created maps. The effectiveness and clarity of the analysed content is one of the advantages of this visual form of analysis. The data were analysed qualitatively and quantitatively. The results show that the presentation of desert biomes in the textbooks we analysed is somewhat superficial, as the authors do not strive to interconnect concepts from different areas, and their conceptual maps lack higher hierarchy levels. Therefore, textbook authors should opt for a different conceptual approach to explanatory texts instead of the traditional coverage of the individual components of geographical environments.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Geography

ISSN

1792-1341

e-ISSN

1792-1341

Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

BE - BELGIUM

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

45-64

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85135020841