The nature of geographic knowledge

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-14

  Golledge, Reginald G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographic knowledge; Geographic skills; Incidental and intentional learning; Spatial relations; Spatial thinking and reasoning

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; LEARNING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0002182088     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8306.00276     Document Type: Review

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