From Scientific Modelling to Textbook Presentation

An Analysis of Knowledge Transfer Using Selected Human Geography Phase Models as Examples

Abstract

Close links between science and other societal systems, such as the education system, are regarded as central to the new knowledge order. Models constitute a key element in the production and reception of geographical knowledge. The aim of the project is to analyse the production and reception processes of selected phase models in human geography along knowledge chains, from basic disciplinary research to textbooks as teaching mediums. This study identified model-specific key points within the disciplinary production and subject-specific didactic reception processes that appear to facilitate or hinder knowledge transfer. Abstract types of production and reception were derived as heuristic constructs and subsequently related to one another and compared with regard to the productivity of the knowledge transfer between them.