C. Jarvis|Peter Kraftl|John B. Dickie
(Re)Connecting spatial literacy with children’s geographies: GPS, Google Earth and children’s everyday lives
University of Leicester|University of Birmingham|University of Stirling
article sets agenda research reconnects research childrens geographies childhood studies studies spatial literacy research childrens environmental cognition latterly spatial literacy artificially problematically separated majority research childhood studies fundamental aim article argue evidence greater attention spatial literacy childrens everyday lives embedded one another support broader call synthetic research agenda draw focussed qualitative empirical material taken largescale project childrens mobilities everyday lives newlybuilt urban communities analysis focuses upon childrens interpretations global positioning systems gps tracks mobilities set background google earth imagery showcase one suite ways research environmental cognition childrens geographies might proceed together demonstrate children displayed analytical skills instance relation scaling effects pattern recognition many also exercised higherlevel critical analysis especially relation errors google earth outputs simultaneously interrogate recursive articulation range qualitative indicators spatial literacy childrens everyday mobilities routines emotions memories paper analyses new conceptual languages technologies propounded spatial literacy scholars could afford enriched understanding key contemporary concerns childrens geographers recursively spatial literacy scholars might gain engaging especially qualitative research prompted concerns