A Brief History of Concept Maps

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Copyright: 2018
Pages: 20
Source title: Advanced Concept Maps in STEM Education: Emerging Research and Opportunities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Michael Tang (University of Colorado Denver, USA)and Arunprakash T. Karunanithi (University of Colorado Denver, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2184-6.ch001

Keywords: Education / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education

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This section of concept maps will trace the works of Ramon Lull and Peter Ramus by comparing and contrasting their respective diagrams. In retrospect it will be argued that Ramon Lull's maps, which were basically religious in nature, were what we could call today, object maps, because of their colorful, concrete, almost multi-sensory presentation. On the hand, Peter Ramus's maps, according to cognitive styles theory to be discussed in a later chapter, were comparatively highly verbal and abstract. Marshall McLuhan, whose ideas lurk in the background throughout this book would say that according to his “law”, “the medium is the message,” Lull's medium, the illuminated manuscript on vellum, was quite different that Ramus' medium which was the printed book. The chapter ends with the philosophical language of Leibnitz, which has elements of what will be called verbal maps and spatial maps, two definite trends in concept mapping.

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