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Abstract
This paper reports on a cross-cultural outreach activity of the current UK ‘Spatial Literacy in Teaching’ (SPLINT) Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), a past UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) grant, and shared interests in family names between Japanese and UK academics. It describes a pedagogic programme developed for Japanese postgraduates and advanced undergraduates that entailed quantitative and qualitative analysis of the spatial distributions of Japanese family names. The authors describe some specific semantic, procedural and theoretical issues and, more generally, suggest how names analysis provides a common framework for engaging student interest in GIS.
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Acknowledgements
This work was funded by the HEFCE ‘Spatial Literacy in Teaching’ (SPLINT) Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL). The authors are grateful to Professor Kevin Schürer for the supply of 1881 Census data to the original Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded surnames project. A website that now incorporates the Japanese data was funded under an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) ‘Impact’ Grant.
Notes
1 The PowerPoint files are available from: http://www.wiley.com/go/longley
2 For details, see http://www.awkk.co.jp/