Mapping for Mutuality: Using Data Maps to Enhance Educational Policymakers' Awareness of the Communities They Serve

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dc.contributor.authorWomac, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorBindewald, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorSala, Matthew Della
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-05T21:11:55Z
dc.date.available2023-12-05T21:11:55Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this conceptual article is to explore the merits of mapping as a data tool for improving state policymakers' awareness of the characteristics and circumstances of the communities they serve. Using South Carolina's Supreme Court decision on a landmark school finance case as the context, a series of maps were created and examined to illuminate the distributions of county and school district goods across the state. We found that maps provided an added geospatial component when compared to the findings from traditional quantitative analyses. Implications for the use of maps in educational policymaking, university curriculum, and secondary education curriculum are outlined in the discussion.
dc.description.departmentGeography and Environmental Studies
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dc.format.extent24 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationWomac, P., Bindewald, B., & Sala, M.D. (2017). Mapping for mutuality: Using data maps to enhance educational policymakers' awareness of the communities they serve. Research in Geographic Education, 19(1), pp. 43-66.
dc.identifier.issn1529-0085
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/17348
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherThe Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education
dc.sourceResearch in Geographic Education, 2017, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 43-66.
dc.subjectgeography
dc.subjectgeography of opportunity
dc.subjecteducation policy
dc.subjectmapping
dc.subjectcontextual patterns
dc.subjectequity
dc.titleMapping for Mutuality: Using Data Maps to Enhance Educational Policymakers' Awareness of the Communities They Serve
dc.typeArticle

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