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)
Regional ecology and Middle America : teaching geography in a major Latin American program
Central America ; Mexico ; Regional geography ; Teaching of geography
The A. details his experience teaching a course on the Geography of Middle America and the search for an explicit niche for geographers in a large and competitive Latin American Studies program at the University of Texas-Austin.―(DWG)
The world according to a grade 12 teacher - a reflection on what students of geography should know and be able to do
Pedagogy ; Secondary education ; Teaching of geography ; United States ; View of the world
A perspective on the challenges facing secondary school teachers of geography in the USA and the responsibility they have to introduce the totality of the subject to their student in such a way that they develop an informed, spatial view
Cultural geography ; Historical geography ; Pedagogy ; Teaching material ; Teaching of geography
Picture postcards are a rich data source for historical, physical and cultural geography that can be used by skilled teachers for learners at different ages. - (DWG)
Atlas ; Pedagogy ; South Africa ; Teaching of geography
Although geography educators agree that school atlases are essential teaching aids, the effeectiveness and frequency of use are reported to be low. The reasons why this should be so are explored and some remedies suggested. - (AJC)
Alabama ; Education ; Practice of geography ; Teaching of geography ; United States
As a way of promoting geographic learning in grades four, five and six, the AA. use the sport of basketball in the state of Alabama to teach regional knowledge. - (DWG)
Army ; Conflict ; England ; Geopolitics ; History of geography ; Military geography ; Teaching of geography ; United Kingdom ; War
The « New Geography » in England, usually identified with the establishment of geographical teaching in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge was based on Mackinder's interpretation in his paper « On the scope and methods of geography