Spatial Concept Perspectives

We have gathered ~300 excerpts from published works about fundamental spatial concept terms. These have been cross-referenced with the concept lexicon appearing on the left. Those terms were drawn from the U.S.National Science Education Standards (NSES 1996) for topic areas B - Physical Science, C - Life Science, D - Earth and Space Science, as well as from the 1994 U.S. Geography Teaching Standards for grades 9-12. Those standards can be browsed here.

spatial concept terms

disciplinary perspectives on "link"

hierarchy

Provide evidence of linkage, dominance, subordination, and embeddedness (p. 87)

Geography

Golledge, et al. (2008)

Matching geospatial concepts with geographic educational needs

link

Without links we could neither be nor be human. We come into the world tethered to our biological mothers... (p 117). In...simple physical cases there is a spatial contiguity and closeness of the linked objects, and the connected objects are related via the link. Linkages are not only physical and spatial. (We) experience temporal connections. Event A is linked to event B by a series of temporally interceding events...linked because we experience them as...somehow being part of the same temporal sequence (p 118).

Linguistics
Philosophy

Johnson, M. (1987)

The Body in the Mind