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Fred B. Kniffen on education and as an educator

Thoughts from a former student and admirer of F. KNIFFEN on the latter's pedagogical method and philosophy used successfully in his many years of teaching at Louisiana State University. - (DWG)

Michigan meridian and base line : a teaching formulation for the secondary school

America's rectangular land survey can be pedagogically used to inform students about geography. - (DWG)

World Bank game : an economic development simulation

Using Burkina Faso as an example, this pedagogical exercise asks students to analyze its assets and liabilities and to prioritize its economic development needs. - (DWG)

Faces and hands of women in the Pacific community : toward an understanding of their status

Pedagogical unit that focuses on the status of women in the diverse countries around the Pacific Ocean. - (DWG)

Our town's planning commission meeting

A play, based on a real event, is used as a pedagogical tool to teach and illustrate the role that urban and regional geography can have in affecting change through the public hearing process. - (DWG)

A folrajzoktatas képzési feladatai. (Educational tasks in geography teaching)

Fundamental pedagogic concepts are clarified and their application in the teaching of geography is detailed. The stages through which the elementary aptitudes are developed into familiarity and then into ability, are described. (DLO).

World-systems theory: toward a heuristic and pedagogic conceptual tool

World-systems theory: toward a heuristic and pedagogic conceptual tool

N. A. Solncev kak pedagog vysšej školy

N. A. Solncev kak pedagog vysšej školy

Sex-related differences in spatial ability : what every geography educator should know

Collating previous pedagogical research, the AA. assert that, ceteris paribus, boys are superior in work that involves geometric visualization, whereas girls perform better on spatial-relational tasks. - (DWG)

Trains, tracks, and nodal regions

Description of a pedagogical exercise using the local community as a laboratory to learn about how a nodal region emerges in a place. The aim is to develop at a young age four key geographic evaluation. - (DWG)

Translation and development theory in geographic education : a model for the genesis and production of geography instructional materials in a competitive funded grant environment

Pedagogical essay on the process involved in the production of materials for use in geography classes at primary and secondary levels. - (DWG)

Competitive learning experiences : the role of weather forecasting contests in geography programs

A pedagogic strategy at all educational levels in teaching about the atmosphere, weather and climate involves in-class contests on weather forecasting. - (DWG)

The U.S. General Land office survey as a basis for biogeography exercises

Reconstruction of presettlement vegetation patterns in the USA has made use of witness-tree records of early surveyors. Three pedagogical exercises are described that make use of these records to understand the tree cover before European settlers

Ride of wildlife : the fundamental themes of geography in action

Pedagogical suggestions for 8th grade (U. S.) that weave geographical themes of location, place, human-environment interaction, movement and regions into a study of African wildlife and its conservation. - (DWG)

A study of two techniques for teaching introductory geography: traditional approach vs. cooperative learning in the university classroom

Pedagogical experimental research found that student interest was held higher in the cooperative learning approach than in the traditional lecture/inquiry approach. - (DWG)

Window in Cybergeography

The goal of this column is to point out geographic websites with pedagogic contents. The three reviewed on this occasion are : the U.S. Department of State Geographic Learning Site (http://geography.state.gov/htmls/statehome.html), about homework

Voprosy geografii Gornogo Altaja Problèmes concernant la géographie du Haut-Altaj (Gornyj-Altaj)

URSS. Barnaul. gos. pedagog. Institut

Geography teaching in Israel : a retrospective view

Geography as an important subject in the centralized educational system of Israel has its roots in the national ideology of Zionism. The first geography concepts learned in school relate to the child's local environment in a pedagogical area called

Geografická hydrologie na PřÍrodovědecké fakultě UK v Praze

Both, pedagogical and research orientation have sensibly changed during the last 20 years. The research on lakes is in the centre of interest again. The main attention has been aimed to the analysis of groundwater quality and to the actual

Has geography curriculum reform in post-apartheid South Africa strengthened continuity and progression ?

with regard to teacher competencies in both geographical and pedagogical knowledge. - (AJC)