Undergraduate teaching and learning in physical geography
Activelearning ; Constructivism ; Field experiment ; Physical geography ; Simulation ; Teaching ; Teaching of geography ; Traditional learning
Constructivist theory forms the basis for a wide range of activelearning approaches, such as inquiry-based learning and problem-based learning. These approaches are inductive in that students build theory and generalizations from case studies
rather than more traditional approaches in which the students learn the theory and then study some examples. Students are typically more engaged in their activelearning than they are in traditional approaches. Attempts to replace fieldwork with virtual
field trips have met with resistance, but there has been little research on the ways that virtual fieldwork could be improved. Animations in particular seem to engage students, although there is no evidence that they enhance the learning of physical
geography. The scholarship of teaching and learning physical geography offers challenges and opportunities for new and experienced faculty who have not previously published in this field.
Activelearning in geography and its practical management in schools in Geographical education.
This paper is founded on the conviction that active methods of learning are in most cases superior to didactic methods of teaching. Geography, by its very nature, is particularly well suited to the development of activelearning methods
Suggestions for classroom activities that enhance the learning of geography in primary and secondary schools by use of the distinctive methodology inherent in « cooperative learning ». - (DWG)
Description of activities for teaching elementary school students about continents and oceans by using poetry, music, games, science, math, cooking and writing. - (DWG)
Learning and learning capability in the Fordist and post-Fordist age : an integrative framework
In this paper, the concept of learning capability is used to integrate different perspectives and to provide an integrative framework for capturing the changing nature of industrial orgnaization and international competition. The AA. focus
on analyzing Fordist and post-Fordist forms of learning at various levels and their differing impact on the learning capability of firms in a regional context. The role of interfirm networks is emphasized in facilitating learning and learning capability.
Free-hand maps help organize spatial information and illustrate progressive levels of learning world place location information. Suggestions to teachers for using sketch map activities in the classroom. - (DWG)
The A. observed that geography has a high status in Dutch secondary schools, that Dutch textbooks tend to apply major geographic themes to a specific regional setting, and that classes use activelearning techniques. - (DWG)
Part of the action, or going native ? Learning to cope with the politics of integration
Activism ; Credit ; England ; Geographic research ; Hull ; Social change ; Social geography ; Social group ; Social integration ; Social practice ; United Kingdom
Problems of systemic learning transfer and innovation - industrial liaison and academic entrepreneurship in Wales
The contribution deals with the following subjects : 1) Profiles of Four University of Wales Colleges. 2) Types of university-industry-linkage. 3) Value of research-related activities. 4) Implications of industrial links on research quality. 5) Role
Lessons learned through our climate change professional development program for middle and high school teachers
This paper provides lessons learned from successfull climate change professional development for teachers in the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, including the importance of inquiry-based curriculum activities, the importance
of an oppotunity to learn by doing and to share their perspectives with their colleagues. Finally, development and continuation of the learning community, both among participants as well as with instructors and scientists, provides critical support to classroom
Examination of content of one course on the geography of American Indians in the USA and Canada at the University of Minnesota-Duluth that included lectures, student projects, outside activities and an evaluation of learning. Article summarizes
Activity space ; Disability ; Discourse ; Higher education ; Practice of geography ; Social exclusion ; Students ; United Kingdom
The paper emphasizes a critical on fieldwork, highlighting the way in which fieldcourses can exclude disabled students. It discusses a survey of the experiences of providing learning support to disabled students undertaking fieldwork in geography
Using geographical terminology, it is possible to state that landscape is a manifestation of the geographical environment. However, in looking at the landscape one may in turn interpret what is going on in, and with, the environment. Thus, to learn
something about the landscape it is essential to know something about geographical environment. Such relations exist in reality and they determine the cohesion of geography, as well as the subject of a geographer's research interest. The activities
Learning the City : knowledge and translocal assemblage
Bombay ; Knowledge ; Learning process ; Production of space ; Urban geography ; Urban policy ; Urbanism
The A. combines the result of fieldwork in Mumbai and other cities with a synthesis of theoretical research on knowledge, space and materiality to show how learning should be viewed as central to the production and politics of cities. He deploys
the concept of urban learning assemblage to explain the complex processes through which knowledge and learning enable and limit various forms of urbanism. - (HC)
Learning and earning : relational scales of children's work
Activity space ; Baja California ; Children ; Discourse ; Labour ; Mexico ; Policy ; Scale ; Social life ; Social reproduction ; Supermarket ; Urban society
Assessment of the pedagogical effectiveness for elementary schools of several instructional strategies featuring keyword mnemonics and devices to enhance attention in learning place names and their locations. - (DWG)
Personal encounters of an American geographer in India seeking to learn about a failed development scheme of the 1950s, the Etawah Pilot Project, funded largely with US assistance. - (DWG)