Janne Holmén – författare

The concept of mental maps is used in several disciplines including geography, psychology, history, linguistics, economics, anthropology, political science, and computer game design. However, until now, there has been little communication between these disciplines and methodological schools involved in mental mapping.

Mental Maps: Geographical and Historical Perspectives addresses this situation by bringing together scholars from some of the related fields. Ute Schneider examines the development of German geographer Heinrich Schiffers’ mental maps, using his books on Africa from the 1930s to the 1970s. Efrat Ben-Ze’ev and Chloé Yvroux investigate conceptions of Israel and Palestine, particularly the West Bank, held by French and Israeli students. By superimposing large numbers of sketch maps, Clarisse Didelon-Loiseau, Sophie de Ruffray, and Nicolas Lambert identify "soft" and "hard" macro-regions on the mental maps of geography students across the world. Janne Holmén investigates whether the Baltic and the Mediterranean Seas are seen as links or divisions between the countries that line their shores, according to the mental maps of high school seniors. Similarly, Dario Musolino maps regional preferences of Italian entrepreneurs. Finally, Lars-Erik Edlund offers an essayistic account of mental mapping, based on memories of maps in his own family.

This edited volume book uses printed maps, survey data and hand drawn maps as sources, contributing to the study of human perception of space from the perspectives of different disciplines.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Geography.

The concept of mental maps is used in several disciplines including geography, psychology, history, linguistics, economics, anthropology, political science, and computer game design. However, until now, there has been little communication between these disciplines and methodological schools involved in mental mapping.

Mental Maps: Geographical and Historical Perspectives addresses this situation by bringing together scholars from some of the related fields. Ute Schneider examines the development of German geographer Heinrich Schiffers’ mental maps, using his books on Africa from the 1930s to the 1970s. Efrat Ben-Ze’ev and Chloé Yvroux investigate conceptions of Israel and Palestine, particularly the West Bank, held by French and Israeli students. By superimposing large numbers of sketch maps, Clarisse Didelon-Loiseau, Sophie de Ruffray, and Nicolas Lambert identify "soft" and "hard" macro-regions on the mental maps of geography students across the world. Janne Holmén investigates whether the Baltic and the Mediterranean Seas are seen as links or divisions between the countries that line their shores, according to the mental maps of high school seniors. Similarly, Dario Musolino maps regional preferences of Italian entrepreneurs. Finally, Lars-Erik Edlund offers an essayistic account of mental mapping, based on memories of maps in his own family.

This edited volume book uses printed maps, survey data and hand drawn maps as sources, contributing to the study of human perception of space from the perspectives of different disciplines.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Geography.

 This book presents the findings of three studies on the use of diagrams in civic education. The first study presents an international comparison of textbook diagrams promoting national unity in diversity, with examples from ten countries. The second focuses on the depiction of migration in diagrammatic form in German textbooks, The final study was conducted in collaboration with teachers in Swedish social science classrooms, and focuses on teaching comprehension of flow charts and scatterplots. The book will be of interest to scholars of educational media, didactics, the history of education and citizenship education.

Bortom PISA introducerar internationell och jämförande pedagogik, ett relevant forskningsfält för alla som är intresserade av hur utbildning tar form i en social kontext. Hur och varför skiljer sig olika länders skolor åt och hur kan vi studera dessa skillnader? Hur går det till när en viss typ av pedagogik sprider sig över nationella och kulturella gränser? Med ett internationellt perspektiv synliggör tio pedagogik- och utbildningsforskare dels den svenska utbildningstraditionens särdrag och förändringar, dels internationella trender och tendenser. Antologin visar en genväg förbi den cementerade debatten om skolans tillstånd genom att uppmärksamma frågor, fenomen och processer som inte synliggörs i internationella mätningar.

Medförfattare till boken är Jakob Billmayer, universitetslektor i pedagogik vid Mittuniversitetet, Janne Holmén, docent i historia och verksam vid Uppsala universitet, Johanna Ringarp, doktor i historia och verksam vid Uppsala universitet, Linda Rönnberg, docent i statsvetenskap och verksam vid Umeå universitet, Petter Sandgren, doktorand i historia vid European University Institute i Florens, Barbara Schulte, docent i pedagogik och verksam vid Lunds universitet, Margareta Serder, vetenskaplig ledare vid FoU Skola i Skåne och Gita Steiner-Khamsi, professor vid Teachers College, Columbia University i New York. Bortom PISA vänder sig till alla verksamma i och kring skolan som vill bidra till att föra diskussionen om skolan framåt.