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John Clayton; Paul Griffin; Graham Mowl – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
In this paper we reflect on our experiences teaching human geography across two modules that pedagogically centre student reflexivity through content that has potential to be dis-comforting. Drawing upon student experiences on two final year option modules, relating to social and spatial exclusion and "race", ethnicity and multiculture,…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Human Geography, Learning Experience
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Hoffman, Jesse; Pelzer, Peter; Albert, Loes; Béneker, Tine; Hajer, Maarten; Mangnus, Astrid – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
This paper investigates how the teaching and learning about "wicked" environmental problems may be fostered through an educational approach premised on futuring -- the active imagination of the future. The growing academic interest in possible and desirable futures provides a promising starting point for restructuring education as…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Problems, Teaching Methods, Sustainability
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Scott, Graham W.; Humphries, Stuart; Henri, Dominic C. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
Residential field courses are important and should be designed and delivered to maximize their value to students, staff and institutions. In this context, we use a novel approach involving analysis of the daily affective and conative reflections of students immersed in the field course experience to better understand student engagement with…
Descriptors: Expectation, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Reflection
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Fuller, Ian C.; France, Derek – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2015
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of incorporating digital video into a traditional Cook's Tour as part of a 7-day road trip around the east coast of New Zealand's North Island over a 4-year period. Student-generated video diaries summarized landscape features and processes at fieldsites, empowering students through active learning and small…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Field Trips, Video Technology, Diaries
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Eden, Sally – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
This paper examines the work-based learning about employability reported by 26 undergraduate Geography and Environmental Management students on part-time, unpaid work placements. The students' "reflective essays" emphasized their learning more in terms of emotional challenges than in terms of skills, as being pushed out of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Employment Potential, Work Experience Programs
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Kindon, Sara; Elwood, Sarah – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2009
This paper provides an introduction to this symposium issue on participatory action research in geographic teaching, learning and research. It introduces the themes of the symposium and contributions from the participating authors, and also offers additional discussion of the attendant benefits and challenges of using participatory action research…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Participatory Research, Action Research, Service Learning