Effectiveness of teaching pedagogical content knowledge through summer geography institutes
Behaviour ; Pedagogy ; Teacher ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
Responses of teachers who went through summer geography institutes in the USA in 1992 were analyzed to assess how effective they were in pedagogical content. - (DWG)
The bete noir of geographic education : teacher training programs
Education ; Educational programme ; Professional training ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
In the USA, preservice teacher education differs among the states, lacks effective communication among groups responsible for curricula and teacher training, and has poor interaction between universities that train the teachers and the schools
Didactics ; Education ; Pedagogy ; Research ; Teaching material ; Teaching of geography
This book originated from the Commission on Geographical Education of the International Geographical Union. It contains many criteria for designing and evaluating future research projects on geographical software, maps, teaching modes and testing
in geographical teaching. Different arguments are presented for considering empirical didactics of geography as an applied science. - (AGD)
Geography and multiple abilities program: innovations in teacher education - reconnecting teaching to students' needs
Children ; Education ; Educational programme ; Primary education ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
Experience at the Univeristy of Alabama in a new five-semester program designed to enable teachers to accomodate the wide range of learning styles in a classroom. - (DWG)
Didactics ; Information system ; Pedagogy ; Teaching of geography
Authoring systems, such as HyperCard, can be used to teach geography because it links visual, verbal and auditory information in a nonsequential manner that mimics human thought. Constructing a geographic stack (web of connections and associations
The National Geographic Society's Teaching Geography Project
Didactics ; Educational programme ; Pedagogy ; Teaching of geography ; United States
Development, objectives, and impacts of the « Teaching Geography Project », a program begun in 1988 funded by the National Geographic Society to provide one-day workshops across the USA. Guidance is offered for geography workshop planners
Research and teaching in political geography: national standards and the resurgence of geography's wayward child
Political geography ; Research ; Teaching of geography ; United States of America
Comments on the roots of political geography, its decline and rebirth, and how this subfield is relevant to teaching geography in American schools. - (DWG)
An analysis of geography teacher educator's perceptions of curriculum 2005
Education ; Education system ; Educational programme ; Geographical knowkedge ; South Africa ; Teaching of geography
The implementation of the new school curriculum and outcomes-based education in South African schools is posing a considerable challenge to geography teachers and teacher educators. The paper explores the feelings, concerns and plans of action