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International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning with GIS in Secondary Schools pp 89–96Cite as

Finland: Diffusion of GIS in Schools from Local Innovations to the Implementation of a National Curriculum

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In this chapter, I provide a brief overview of the status of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in the secondary schools of Finland and describe a few projects and activities that partly enhanced the incorporation of GIS in the curricula. This chapter presents a case study on the use of global positioning system (GPS) receivers in lower-secondary school education through a geocaching exercise and concludes with the most recent prospects for learning with GIS in Finland.

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  1. University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

    Tino P. Johansson

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  1. , Curriculum and Instruction, University of Texas at Arlington, Yates Street 502, Arlington, 76019, Texas, USA

    Andrew J. Milson

  2. , Department of Geography, Fatih University, Buyukcekmece, Istanbul, 34500, Turkey

    Ali Demirci

  3. Environmental Systems Research Institute, International Court 1, Broomfield, 80021-3200, Colorado, USA

    Joseph J. Kerski

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Johansson, T.P. (2012). Finland: Diffusion of GIS in Schools from Local Innovations to the Implementation of a National Curriculum. In: Milson, A., Demirci, A., Kerski, J. (eds) International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning with GIS in Secondary Schools. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2120-3_10

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