Reports on a study that evaluated two approaches to the teaching of physical geography. Reports on the project that focused on first-year geography students undertaking physical geography fieldwork. Indicates that the traditional descriptive-explanation approach in the short term is more conducive to student learning than the analytical-predictive…

Internationally, fieldwork is seen as intrinsic to geographical education. Fieldwork is here defined as any study of the environment that takes place outside the classroom. This paper extends a previous study of student perceptions of the impacts on their learning of a cancellation of fieldwork caused by an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in…

This paper seeks to address assumptions on the effectiveness of fieldwork as a mode of learning in geography. This is approached from an international perspective, both in review of available evidence, which demonstrates a need for rigorous research into the issue, and in providing preliminary findings of research into the value of fieldwork from…