Saturday, 28 November 2020

Patrick Wiegand

Patrick Wiegand was the GA's Publications Officer during the 1980s.

He is referenced in 1987's Annual Report along with other GA documents.

Patrick has also authored a wide range of books, often on the theme of maps and mapping, and I have a few in my classroom library of books from the 1980s and 90s. I found one the other day when doing some tidying to organise new resources.

He taught in Primary and Secondary Schools, before moving to the School of Education at the University of Leeds. He was Reader in Geography Education at the University of Leeds and Chair of the Cartography and Children Commission of the International Cartographic Association. He is a Fellow of the British Cartographic Society, a member of the UK Committee for Cartography and recently held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in GIS in Education

He was editorial adviser on atlases for Oxford University Press as well in a long career.

He contributed a think piece on Maps and Mapping to the GA website:

Download as a PDF:

https://www.geography.org.uk/write/mediauploads/research%20library/ga_tp_s_mapsatlases.pdf

He also wrote articles for GA journals:

Wiegand, Patrick. “The 'Known World' of Primary School Children.” Geography, vol. 76, no. 2, 1991, pp. 143–150. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40572062. Accessed 22 Nov. 2020.

References

Humphrys, Graham, et al. “Annual Report of The Geographical Association 1987.” Geography, vol. 73, no. 2, 1988, pp. 162–178. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40571395. Accessed 14 Nov. 2020.


If anyone has other memories of Patrick Wiegand please get in touch.

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