This is another one of these issues that demonstrates how geographers continue to struggle to justify their existence as a science...what is it we do and teach and argue that everyone should be excited about?
Spatial Thinking = Geographic Perspective = Geographic Reasoning (it's all the same!).
Joe Kerski (Esri) defines spatial thinking as "identifying, analyzing, and understanding the location, scale, patterns, and trends of the geographic and temporal relationships among data, phenomena, and issues." The goal is then to cultivate spatial thinking as a useful habit of mind (similar I suppose to cultivating the scientific method as such) to analyze how the world works, including how systems function, how and why certain relationships exist, and also how we might approach and solve problems.
Here's the link to the full essay.
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