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Where Powerful Knowledge and Pedagogical Content Knowledge Intersect: The Case of Knowledge and Beliefs for Teaching School Geography through Inquiry
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Shu Jun Lee; Jeana Kriewaldt – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2025
Despite global interest in inquiry as a teaching and learning approach for school geography, little is known about teachers' knowledge and beliefs for teaching geography through inquiry. This paper reports on findings from a survey of 44 Victorian secondary teachers' knowledge, beliefs and practice of teaching geography through inquiry. Our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers, Geography Instruction, Inquiry
Addressing Global Challenges in Geographical Education: Perspectives from the CGE Springer Book Series
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Di Wilmot; Clare Brooks – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2024
A key responsibility of academic scholarship is to further develop the field under investigation and to critically evaluate how it is responding to challenges from both inside and outside of the field of enquiry. This article offers an overview of whether the scholarship published in geography education (GE) from the perspective of the Commission…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Geographic Concepts, Conservation Education, Global Approach
Teaching about Development in a Post-Development Society: The Case of Geography
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Standish, Alex – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2018
This article charts social and economic transformation in the developing world over recent decades by drawing on a number of different secondary data sources. I propose that this rapid change means that we need to re-think the teaching of development in the curriculum to move beyond a polarised view of developed versus developing. The article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Economic Development, Social Development
Early Career Primary Teachers and Education for Sustainability
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Kennelly, Julie; Taylor, Neil; Serow, Pep – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2012
Solutions to the pressing environmental problems of our time include a shift towards more sustainable ways of living, and in this, education is recognised as having an important role. It is expected that if sustainability is addressed in teacher education, its prevalence in schools will also increase. However little has been reported regarding how…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Preservice Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Not Yet Learning for Sustainability: The Challenge of Environmental Education in a University
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Pearson, Stuart; Honeywood, Steven; O'Toole, Mitch – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2005
The pathway for achieving sustainability outcomes in environmental education is littered with difficulty. The experience in this particular case study provides insight into the difficulties of sustainability education and the need for effective formal and informal delivery at various places in the society. Schools and universities are key…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Curriculum
Curriculum Reform and Primary Geography in Finland: A Gap between Theory and Practice?
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Tani, Sirpa – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2004
This paper examines geographical education for children under 13 years of age in Finland in the present situation, in which geography is taught as part of "Environmental and Natural Studies", the school subject integrating biology, geography, environmental studies, civics, physics and chemistry. In the content analysis of school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Geography, Textbooks