GEO 106 Chapter Notes -Jean Piaget, Euclidean Space, Gardiner Expressway
2 Oct 2013
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We view the phenomenal world from our own particular viewpoint largely shaped by our personal and cultural (contextual) environments. All children have in common an egocentric (and domicentric) focus on home and important nearby features (school, pool, playground) Adult images in both places, while still egocentric, encompass more territory including unvisited places. Also more appropriate to ethnocentrically incorporate the collective image for real world things (showing what is supposed to be on maps), but also incorporating elements of metaphysical worlds (european maps of the middle ages showing various layers of heavens) All images are simplifications of reality and have in common a self centeredness (a focus on me or us) and a sense of priority (what info is important to the task at hand) Powell suggests that images have conscious, unconscious elements that blend certainty and uncertainty (is it still there?) and reality and unreality (is it really like that?)
