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Natalie Koch – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
This paper reflects on teaching sport in political geography undergraduate courses in the United States, through which I simultaneously aim to de-essentialize geopolitics and de-essentialize sport. I integrate sport examples in diverse courses on political geography and teach a dedicated "Geopolitics of Sport" course. By framing my…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Human Geography, Undergraduate Study, Athletics
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Roberts, Margaret – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2023
Michael Young's concept of "powerful knowledge" has received widespread attention from many in geographical education. I use the claims Young has made about powerful knowledge as a starting point for considering how pedagogic practices could contribute to making geographical education powerful. I present three sets of pedagogic…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Activities
Kirby, Andrew – Geography Teacher, 2023
This paper will focus on how communities can respond to the impacts of a more dangerous world but will emphasize that there exist powerful barriers to climate change adaptation (CCA). This article explores why there are so many barriers to change and offers a simple mnemonic to organize the argument--A.D.A.P.T. The A.D.A.P.T. framework shows that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Climate, Adjustment (to Environment), Barriers
DeAnna L. Gore – Geography Teacher, 2025
This lesson plan will illustrate how Taiwan can be used as a case study in an undergraduate human geography, population geography, or demography course. Incorporating Taiwan within the curriculum can equip students with a deep understanding of demographic concepts, specifically as it relates to the demographic trends in Taiwan. Through in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Demography, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Pauline Guinard; Jean-Baptiste Lanne – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
This paper is based on an experiment conducted in 2019 at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, as part of a post-graduate research course, that aimed to reflect on the methodologies used by geographers when (re)searching (for) emotions. This methodological question is crucial since it is partly because of the difficulty of finding relevant tools…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Geography Instruction, Emotional Experience
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Natascha Klocker; Charles Gillon; Leah Gibbs; Jennifer Atchison; Gordon Waitt – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
Human geographers engage students in learning about a world characterized by environmental and social disarray. It follows that our students are exposed to deeply confronting topics: climate change, global inequality, food insecurity, and racism, to name a few. Prompted by scholarly debate on the effects of painful emotions elicited by public…
Descriptors: Human Geography, Geography Instruction, Grief, Psychological Patterns
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Lisa Tabor; John Harrington Jr. – Journal of Geography, 2023
The basics of climate must be understood to have a climate literate populace. Understanding climatic change is a wicked problem. This work identifies three foundational content challenges to climate and climate change education, discusses them thoroughly, and offers graphics and conceptual models to address this content in the classroom. The three…
Descriptors: Climate, Weather, Ecology, Social Problems
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Larsen, Thomas; Gerike, Matthew; Harrington, John, Jr. – Journal of Geography, 2022
Pollution issues, anthropogenic climate change, and biodiversity declines, formerly local in scope, accumulate to threaten crossing planetary boundaries and tipping Earth's system to an uninhabitable state. The human-environment identity is an unsung cornerstone of geography that can educate upcoming generations of citizens about trends over time,…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Geography Instruction, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education
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David K. Seitz; Daniel Cockayne; Ryan Z. Good; Kathryn L. Hannum; Adrianne C. Kroepsch; Mark Alan Rhodes II; Jack Swab; Nancy Worth – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
This paper grapples with the challenges posed to critical geography educators by STEMification, or the enshrinement of market-oriented forms of science and technology education as the normative ideal for education in general. In both reactionary and progressive contexts, STEMification decontextualizes scientific and technological activity and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Geography Instruction, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods
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Skelton, Tracey – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2020
Reflecting on a previous article, I evaluate changes encountered around teaching sexuality over the past 22 years in different geo-political settings. This article examines the ways in which my teaching practices, as an academic committed to equality, have developed in relation to different academic and political contexts. This personal pathway…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sexuality, Teaching Methods, Educational Change
Rees, Amanda; Harwood, Marlena; Praley, Maggie; Wee, Bryan; Duster, Thomas – Geography Teacher, 2022
Space is the product of spatial and social relations (Massey 2005). Educators are constantly moving in and out of physical or virtual spaces in classrooms. In geography education particularly, space is integral to teaching and learning. For example, students situate spatial knowledge within social contexts to make sense of geographical concepts…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Geography, Electronic Learning
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Gazioglu, Mihaela; Hines-Farmer, Shauna M.; Vega, Hazel; Savitz, Rachelle S. – Social Studies, 2022
Adaptive teaching is a pedagogical approach which encourages teachers to adapt their teaching practices to deliver custom learning experiences by addressing students' individual needs and differences. This article describes how one beginner geography teacher adapted instructional practices to meet her students' learning needs. First, we provide a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Geography Instruction, Learning Experience, Student Needs
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Tim Hall; Shaun Lin – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
This short essay introduces the symposium "Teaching sports geography". The six papers that make up this symposium represent the first substantive interventions into the pedagogies of sports geography. Sports geography has a rich research literature that is briefly reviewed, before the paper goes on to consider enduring concerns that…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Team Sports, College Faculty
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Talula Pontuti; Serena Madsen; Lundquist; Richard M. Medina – Journal of Geography, 2024
This article describes the process taken by members of a seminar course on radical geography in a primarily quantitative geography department. This course was taught during tumultuous times necessitating the need to explore radical topics and abstract conceptualizations of space and place. We offer our experiences and lessons learned while…
Descriptors: Ideology, Geography Instruction, Geographic Concepts, Teaching Methods
Brent Allison – Geography Teacher, 2025
Though overshadowed by their Japanese counterpart, Taiwan's and South Korea's comics industries produce illustrated tales that represent and speak back to their host cultures, even when employing common Japanese manga conventions. As Japanese manga is popular with North American youth, Taiwanese and South Korean comics present a potential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cartoons, Cultural Influences, Cultural Background
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