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Moore, Niamh – National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (NJ1), 2009
In an increasingly competitive economy, the capacity for self-motivation, problem-solving skills and an ability to think critically are core graduate attributes. However, the capacity to create an educational environment that develops and harnesses such skills is a distinct challenge as resources become increasingly restricted. Geographical Skills…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Quality Control, Experiential Learning, Teaching Methods
Yiannoutsou, Nikoleta; Kynigos, Chronis – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
We report research on meanings of scale generated by pairs of 14 year-old students engaged in joint map-construction. Characteristics of the learning environment, such as the communicational orchestration, the use of experientially familiar objects in space as starting points for creating figural representations and the interrelated…
Descriptors: Cartography, Spatial Ability, Map Skills, Cooperative Learning