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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
Parra, Julia; Chatterjee, Suparna; Alzaid, Ayman; Korang, Thomas – Geography Teacher, 2022
Though there has been debate regarding the effectiveness of online teaching and learning as compared to face-to-face or in-person modalities, the online experience has gained credence and momentum (Brenneman and Karpman 2020). The COVID-19 pandemic and its resultant global lockdown warranted the closing of schools and the adoption of online…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Learning Activities, Electronic Learning, Geography Instruction
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Gormally, Alexandra – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2019
Sustainability is becoming a key component of many HE curricula. However, questions as to what sustainability is and how it can be embedded within subject specific curriculum are difficult to answer. Focussing on existing pedagogic scholarship in this area and by drawing on experiences from my own institution, this article discusses how the GEES…
Descriptors: Sustainability, College Curriculum, Geography Instruction, Earth Science
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Stokes, Alison; Harmer, Nichola – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2018
Active, student-centered pedagogies such as project-based learning (PjBL) can offer significant potential for engaging undergraduates with complex sustainability issues. Driven by institution-wide curriculum changes and informed by educational theories and evidence from previous studies, a trial PjBL activity was designed and delivered on three…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction
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Dikli, Semire, Ed.; Etheridge, Brian, Ed.; Rawls, Richard, Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
In an effort to enhance the quality of education, universities and colleges are developing programs that help faculty and staff internationalize curriculum. These programs will purposefully develop the intercultural perspectives of students. "Curriculum Internationalization and the Future of Education" is a critical scholarly resource…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Curriculum Development, Educational Trends, Active Learning
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Yasar, Okan; Seremet, Mehmet – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2009
This study aims at introducing, explaining and evaluating the revised secondary school (high school) geography lesson curriculum in Turkey. Preliminary studies on the new curriculum started in 2002, and it was implemented in 2005. In this context, the article will focus on the programme development process and approaches, principle components of…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Constructivism (Learning), Geography, Active Learning
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Butterfield, Graeme; Datta, Kavita; Davie, Tim; Gray, Murray; Hall, Ray; Lee, Roger – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1999
Reviews the series of British books entitled "The Geography Discipline Network Guides on Teaching, Learning and Assessment." Believes that the series will inspire teachers to think about educating students in new and positive ways and could sustain a system of higher education based on the values presented in the guides. (CMK)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Book Reviews, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
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Coleman-Knight, Jan – Social Studies Review, 1995
Maintains that history is stories of extraordinary and ordinary people confronting problems not unlike today. Presents and discusses five keys to history: (1) time; (2) place; (3) people--achievements and failures; (4) society--contributions and failures; and (5) connections between past, present, and future. (CFR)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Educational Strategies