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Direct linkAubrey Golightly; Sandra Sprenger – Journal of Geography, 2024
Learner-centered instruction fosters 21st-century skills and must be implemented in geography classrooms. In this South African case study, most teachers predominantly implemented teacher-centered instruction. The analysis of the results established a moderate but highly significant relationship between geography teachers' years of teaching and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies
Raath, Schalk; Hay, Anette – Journal of Geography, 2019
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a cross-curricular approach that needs to be accommodated in all subjects in the training of students as recommended by UNESCO. This South African case study of preservice geography students is presented for the purpose of understanding how they experienced systems thinking and a cooperative teaching…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development
Pingel, Thomas J. – Journal of Geography, 2018
Game-based Web sites and applications are changing the ways in which students learn the world map. In this study, a Web map-based digital learning tool was used as a study aid for a university-level geography course in order to examine the way in which global scale cognitive maps are constructed. A network analysis revealed that clicks were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Geography, Geography Instruction, Electronic Learning
Wall, Tamara U.; Halvorson, Sarah J. – Journal of Geography, 2011
Creating opportunities for students to actively apply hazards theory to real-life situations is often a challenge in hazards geography courses. This article presents a project, the Jocko Lakes Fire Project, that implemented learning strategies to encourage students to be active in wildfire hazards research. Wildfire hazards stand out as an…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Familiarity, Learning Strategies, Active Learning
Zirkle, David M.; Ellis, Arthur K. – Journal of Geography, 2010
Sixth-grade students studying Latin America were placed in experimental and comparison groups to test the effects of map-study repetition on long-term memory. Mean scores on place-name repetition indicated that the experimental (repetition) group out-performed the comparison group at a statistically significant level with respect to both posttest…
Descriptors: Geographic Location, Identification, Maps, Study Skills
Frazier, John W. – Journal of Geography, 2008
Increasing multicultural course offerings in the undergraduate curriculum is a challenge for geography programs. Effective approaches to teaching multicultural geography of the United States include emphasizing institutional affects on minority populations and the life experiences and geographic expressions of minority groups. This article shares…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Multicultural Education, Geography, Learning Strategies
