As I recommended classroom posters the other day (Nov18, Wall Posters and Perspectives), I realized that I have written almost nothing in this blog so far about maps. Those who know me would be incredulous. Not writing about maps, especially world maps, over two years of blogging? For a while world maps provided one of my favourite lessons, with different representations of the world all over the walls of my classroom and some really good discussion amongst my international students on what the visions we carry of the world, how we gained them, and the practicalities and perspectives interlaced with them.
In this blog, I think I’ve used only the metaphor of a map (“The map is not the territory.”) When you get into metaphors (in which one thing suggests something else) using maps (in which the representation refers to something else, the natural word but with all its conceptual overlays), you’re really getting into some of the fun of TOK!
