College students’ consumption, contribution, and risk awareness related to online mapping services and social media outlets : does geography and GIS knowledge matter?
Geographical information system ; Knowledge ; Privacy ; Risk ; Social geography ; Social network ; Students
This study examines college students’ consumption and contribution of geographic information through Location-enabled online tools and/or services as well as their perception of risk and privacy. It was found that the consumption frequency
is positively related to their knowledge in GIS and geography, but their GI contribution is not related. However, this relationship does not translate into students’ concern about potential privacy disclosure or their willingness to share personal location
Campus, city, networks and nation : student-migrant activism as socio-spatial experience in Melbourne, Australia
Activism ; Australia ; Internationalization ; Melbourne ; Social movement ; Students ; University campus ; Urban immigration ; Urban society ; Victoria ; Vulnerability
The article analyses three case studies of protests involving student migrants in Melbourne : a protest against unfair assessment ; a fight for a campus prayer room ; and labour protests within the retail service and taxi industries. It draws
that encompass shifting and socially produced spatial scales, as well as complex networks of association across different communities, which in turn reflect different student-migrant identities.
Class, students and place : encountering locality in a post-industrial landscape
Criminality ; Deindustrialization ; England ; Gender ; Perception ; Place ; Public space ; Social geography ; Students ; United Kingdom ; University ; Urban area ; Woman ; Working class
This article explores the meaning of ‘class’ and ‘studenthood’ at a ‘new’ university in a large post-industrialtown in the north of England. Findings support the accepted notion of a distinct student identity and perceived divides between students
and local people based on spatiality, locality, class and student habitus, which also intersected with gender to produce ‘locally specific’ experiences of space and safety within this setting. However, the article confounds the middle-class student
Community ; Conflict ; England ; Housing ; Inner city ; Location ; Social geography ; Societal relations ; Students ; United Kingdom ; Urban area
This paper examines the rising concern about the negative impacts of students on ‘host communities’ through the example of a purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) in Brighton. It shows that the location of this development in a densely
populated neighbourhood has engendered adverse student/community relations, conflict, feelings of dispossession and displacement of established local residents. It is asserted that future developments of PBSA should be mindful of these issues
This article presents a study which observes the notions of Czech elementary and secondary school students’ about the spatial layout and geography of Czechia. Findings of the study’s three basic phases are presented: a contents analysis
of the students’ individual mental maps; an analysis of the accuracy with which the students depicted Prague within these maps ; and an analysis of the maps expressing where students would prefer to live. - (EN)
Applied geography ; Knowledge ; Learning process ; Space ; Students ; Test
, compared to high correlations among scores on spatial ability tests, and the degrees of relationship between geospatial thinking and spatial ability depended on the type of geospatial thinking. Expert geospatial scientists do not outperform students
Solidarity : student activism, affective labor, and the Fair Trade Campaign in the United States
Activism ; Commodification ; Consumer behaviour ; Consumption ; Empowerment ; Ethics ; Fair trade ; Retail trade ; Social geography ; Students ; United States of America
The expenditure impacts of individual higher education institutions and their students on the Scottish economy under a regional government budget constraint : homogeneity or heterogeneity?
Education ; Financing ; Grant ; Higher education ; Impact ; Public expenditure ; Regional economy ; Scotland ; State budget ; Students ; United Kingdom
Geographie Alpine. Together with his doctoral students, he challenged the academic hegemony of geographers at the Sorbonne. His studies of Grenoble and Annecy were pioneer works in urban geography. Starting in 1917, he taught for part of most years in North
In Slovenia, the migrations are treated in almost all geographical textbooks. In elementary school, the students acquire knowledge of the migrations by the inductive approach. In the grammar school program a trail of gaining knowledge on migration
Beijing ; Canada ; China ; Creative industry ; Employment ; Europe ; Finland ; Industrial park ; Italy ; Labour market ; Montréal ; Northern China ; Professional qualification ; Quebec ; Research and development ; Seattle ; Students ; Technology