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Ravinesh Rohit Prasad; Mohammed Khalid Hassan – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2025
This paper investigates the causes of students' preference and disinclination for high school geography. The paper draws on data from 135 students from years 11, 12, and 13 (aged 16-18 years) from seven secondary schools in the Ba district, Western division, Fiji Islands. We used the posterior inductive reduction model to analyze and identify the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Geography Instruction
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T. Béneker; G. Bladh; D. Lambert – Curriculum Journal, 2024
This paper has its origins in the EU Comenius funded GeoCapabilities project. From its outset, the project developed and researched the notion of powerful disciplinary knowledge (PDK) as an underlying principle of curriculum making in the context of secondary school geography teaching. The work, led from the UCL Institute of Education and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Schools, Geography Instruction, Curriculum Development
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Jaume Binimelis Sebastián; Alejandro Gómez Gonçalves; Isabel María Gómez Trigueros; Joan Jordi Muntaner Guasp – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2024
Poor geographic knowledge among students and citizens, in general, has been one of the main research concerns in the area of geography education. This study is part of a project aimed at determining compulsory secondary education students' level of geographic knowledge and providing tools to improve learning. Following quantitative research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Geography Instruction, Geographic Information Systems
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Budi Handoyo; Purwanto; Syahrul Ridha; Geok Chin Ivy Tan – Journal of Social Studies Education Research, 2024
The Spatial-Based Learning (SBL) model, developed in 2018, has evolved through the application of various spatial techniques. Its 21st-century emergence prompts an analysis of its impact on critical thinking. This study aims to examine SBL's impact using Quantum Geographic Information System (SBL-QGIS) on undergraduates' critical thinking.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Geographic Information Systems, Critical Thinking
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Elizabeth A. C. Rushton; Lynda Dunlop; Lucy Atkinson – Curriculum Journal, 2025
Drawing on conceptualisations of teacher agency through the ecological approach, and in the context of recent policy activity, we explored primary and secondary school teachers' experiences of agency in relation to climate change education in England. Data collection occurred over two distinct but related phases. Firstly, we completed a series of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Teacher Empowerment
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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
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Kim, Gapcheol – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2023
This study aims to articulate how the language of the geography curriculum privileges modernist discourses of global citizenship at the expense of others. Drawing on the work of two critical scholars, empirical data from South Korea reveals how geography education professionals (GEPs) engaged closely with the (re)production of geographical…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Global Approach, Citizenship, Foreign Countries
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Grace Healy; Lauren Hammond – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2025
In this article, we engage with undergraduate geography students' reflections on their geography education. We begin by examining the position of geography within education across the British Isles. Following this, we critically consider how geography education is shaped by "the gap" between school and university geography and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction, Curriculum Development
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Al-Maamari, Saif Nasser – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2022
Based on international trends, Omani education policy increasingly charges schools with fostering active citizens who have good attributes to achieve a good future. In this article, I considered the relationship between global citizenship and geography education in Oman. In particular, the study focused on how those teachers perceive global…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Citizenship Education, Geography Instruction
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Nguyen, Thanh Tam; Budke, Alexandra – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2022
This article focuses on the promotion of argumentation skills in Vietnamese geography teaching, which are not only relevant for understanding subject contexts but also for evaluation and critical reflection processes. An earlier study in this context showed that limited argumentation tasks are incorporated into the central medium of instruction,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Persuasive Discourse, Textbook Content
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Gregory, Kenneth J.; Lewin, John – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
Big ideas, sometimes referred to as key, core, fundamental or threshold concepts, are widely applicable concepts at the heart of disciplines that are or have been central and influential for their fields. Attention here is particularly directed to meta-concepts common to sister disciplines in the sciences. "Learning thresholds",…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Intellectual Disciplines, Learner Engagement
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Bladh, Gabriel – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2020
One of the ideas of the GeoCapabilities project(s) is to open up an international debate on the purposes and values of geography education. In line with this, the aim of this article is to examine some central perspectives used in GeoCapabilities, such as curriculum thinking, the teacher as 'curriculum maker' and the perspective of powerful…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Knowledge Level, Educational Practices, Curriculum Development
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Emma Allen – International Journal for Students as Partners, 2023
Student-staff partnership, understood as the situation when students and staff work together on a project, contributing equally but in potentially different ways, is an innovation that is gaining traction on university campuses worldwide. This case study details my first foray into the partnership arena. I invited undergraduate students from the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Partnerships in Education
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Mitchell, David; Stones, Alexis – London Review of Education, 2022
This article makes the case for repositioning values and ethics as central to understanding how curriculum knowledge can be educationally powerful. Disciplinary knowledge can help individuals make sense of the present, explore alternative futures and participate in society, making ethical choices about how to live. This, however, depends on…
Descriptors: Climate, Curriculum Development, Ethics, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Spurná, Michaela; Knecht, Petr; Svobodová, Hana – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2021
The geography curriculum at primary and secondary schools in Czechia is undergoing a revision. This study aims to identify aspects of the current curriculum that may assist in the formulation of recommendations in the revised curriculum. We use a deductive content analysis approach based on Catling's typology of perspectives on geography…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Educational Change, Curriculum Development
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