THE NEW GEOGRAPHY

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’The main purpose of this study is the examination of the instructional contents and methods of maprelated education that supports the development of a pupil’s understanding and using of maps. To this end, the study is organized around two research questions: (1) What kinds of map-related knowledge and skills should be obtained by a pupil? (2) How can they be structured in the instructions of maprelated education? 　Since Japan’s national standard for elementary school social studies ignores appropriate instructional structure to introduce map-related knowledge, the pupil seems to be having some difficulty in obtaining the appropriate skills of understanding and using maps. Robert Gagné, an instructional theorist, argued that there are five types of intellectual skills: discrimination, concepts, principles, rules and problem solving. In this study. The author will focus on these intellectual skills to find how they work in the effective lessons of map-related instruction for a pupil. Using these five intellectual skills as analytical concepts. The author will examine Simon Catling’s Mapstart, which is a notable work aimed at developing skills of a pupil’s understanding and using maps, and will detect appropriate instructional contents and methods in it.

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