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Direct linkBéneker, Tine; Tani, Sirpa; Uphues, Rainer; van der Vaart, Rob – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2013
Geography is one of the most important school subjects for the development of global awareness and international understanding. Curricular concepts and pedagogical strategies for developing global awareness through geography abound. What is largely unknown, however, is how young people make sense of the world in which they are growing up and if…
Descriptors: Geography, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness
Lane, Rod; Bourke, Terri – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2017
A recent editorial in International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (IRGEE) highlighted an opportunity for the inclusion of geography as a subject in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) tests. At present, TIMSS tests only encompass mathematics and physical sciences. The IRGEE editors encouraged…
Descriptors: International Assessment, Geography Instruction, Educational Opportunities, Research Projects
Download full textBéneker, Tine; van Dis, Hanneke; van Middelkoop, Daniel – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2014
This article reports the results of a study conducted to gain insight into the world-mindedness of young people living in the Netherlands. Two groups are compared: students attending "regular" Dutch schools and students attending international schools. A questionnaire measured the students' world-mindedness and their evaluation of their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, International Schools, Conventional Instruction
Akengin, Hamza – Online Submission, 2008
The aim of this research is to examine the permanence of knowledge in the Cyprus Geography classes in middle schools of Cyprus' Turkish Society in quality and quantity and to analyse the factors, which are influential in the permanence of this knowledge. In order to be able to understand the problems that the residents of Cyprus' Turkish Society…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Geography, Foreign Countries
Fine, Carole S.; Friedman, Lawrence B. – 1991
This report is the result of an independent evaluation of a project conducted during the 1990-91 school year with 56 teachers and over 1,800 students from 28 elementary schools in Iowa. The goals of the project were to demonstrate the effectiveness of new technology to improve science and geography instruction at the elementary level; train…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking, Educational Technology
Demovsky, Sandra; Niemuth, Judy – 1999
An action research project developed and implemented a program for increasing global skills and awareness of ethnic diversity in the classroom so that students could better understand others. The targeted population at two midwestern sites consisted of middle school sixth graders and high school learning disabled students in social studies…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Pluralism
