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Rutherford, David J. – Geography Teacher, 2020
World regional geography is one of the most popular and most heavily subscribed geography courses in the United States at both the undergraduate and K-12 levels (Rutherford 2001; Mueller 2003; Bednarz 2004). Yet little consensus exists about the content that the course should include or the approach that should be used to teach it. Debate exists…
Descriptors: World Geography, Geography Instruction, Course Content, Teaching Methods
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Aidana Ainabek; Bekzhan Abdualiuly; Samal Zhuanyshpaeva; Aliya Ongarbayeva; Aigul Aitymova; Assem Belgibekova – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2024
Kazakh and Nogai peoples have shared many similar experiences throughout history. In the theoretical dimension of this study, the common features of Kazakh and Nogai communities in the fields of language, culture and geography are analyzed in a comparative perspective. In the research dimension, the common history of Kazakh and Nogai peoples,…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Ethnic Groups
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Léonie J. Rennie – Teaching Science, 2024
The Australian Curriculum Science has "Patterns, Order and Organisation" as one of its six Key Ideas. In the biological sciences, the structural patterns revealed by observing living things are used to order and organise them in a hierarchical system of binomial nomenclature, in which living things have a generic name and a specific…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Taxonomy, Zoology
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Shatri, Zamira Gashi; Zabeli, Naser – South African Journal of Education, 2022
Teachers use feedback to modify student thinking or behaviour to improve their learning. In order for students to achieve better, teachers must use different strategies and ways of teaching. In this article we reflect on the practical application and impact that written and verbal feedback have on learners. Through the research reported on here we…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Verbal Communication, Written Language, Feedback (Response)
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Adrian, Daniel; Reischman, Diann; Anderson, Kirk; Richardson, Mary; Stephenson, Paul – Journal of Statistics Education, 2020
Maps are a primary method of displaying statistical data that comes from a geographical frame. Maps are esthetically appealing and make it easier to identify geographic patterns in a dataset. However, few introductory statistical texts and courses explicitly present maps as a way to display data. In this article, we will present examples of…
Descriptors: Statistics, Teaching Methods, Introductory Courses, Maps
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Gavri?, Alexandru – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
As music remains one of the most popular activities of everyday life, this paper builds on critical and popular geopolitics to introduce music as a key endeavour in teaching such topics. The paper attempts to go beyond scrutiny of the popular music by connecting it with the historical strings of geopolitical evolution and their current…
Descriptors: Music Education, Politics, Music, Teaching Methods
Petzen, Barbara – Geography Teacher, 2020
This article is an attempt to create new ways for students to appreciate the complexities and diversity of the Middle East's foodways and thus of their people and societies. It takes a broad view of the region that is historically inclusive, stretching from Morocco and al-Andalus (Spain) in the west to Iran in the east and from modern-day Turkey…
Descriptors: Food, Geographic Regions, Teaching Methods, Geography Instruction
Krumins Grazzini, Baiba – NAMTA Journal, 2018
"To Educate the Human Potential" by Maria Montessori, first released in 1948, conveyed the Montessori theme of human solidarity as a unifying force for human history and integrated the sciences of geography, chemistry, biology, and physics. The concluding chapter of this journal places the reader in touch with the great questions of life…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, History, Geography, Chemistry
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Trimm, Charlie – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2018
This essay provides a brief overview of an educational board game developed by the author for use in upper division Old Testament classes. The game, extending in stages across the semester, heightens student learning by requiring strategic thinking about various historical, political, and geographical relationships. Appendices and links to online…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Religious Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Games
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Martins, Felisbela – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2015
Since 2008, the initial training of Geography teachers in Portugal was combined with the initial training of History teachers. This forced union has led to implications in the practices and teaching of geography. This paper intends to explore the thoughts and actions of the student teachers at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of…
Descriptors: Geography, Geography Instruction, Foreign Countries, Student Teachers
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Moriarty, Sinead – Children's Literature in Education, 2017
This article examines the Antarctic landscape as one of the last places in the world to be explored and mapped, and as one of the most changeable landscapes in the world. The mapping exercises involved in the early, heroic-era Antarctic expeditions, helped to reduce a once mysterious and unknown landscape into a known entity, something that could…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Childrens Literature, Teaching Methods, Nonfiction
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Rakytová, Iveta; Tomcíková, Ivana – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2019
UNESCO identifies unique places in the World, whether natural or man-made, of universally outstanding value or cultural significance as World Heritage. These places are considered heritage of all mankind, rather than just heritage of a particular area, country, or region. Such sites can be rich sources of information not only for the people of the…
Descriptors: Historic Sites, Geography Instruction, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Diani, Giuliana; Sezzi, Annalisa – Journal of Visual Literacy, 2020
Nowadays, knowledge dissemination among children is no longer limited to the classroom and course or information books. It also includes websites explicitly addressed to youngsters who have a different stage of cognitive development and background knowledge compared to adults. However, they are also the first to live in today's multimodal…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Scientific Literacy, Science Instruction, Hypermedia
Dere, Ilker; Ates, Yakup – Online Submission, 2022
The research aims to determine which alternative literacy types should be included in the Social Studies curriculum used in Turkey since 2018 The data sources of the research, in which the document analysis method from the qualitative research methods was used, are the 2018 Turkish Social Studies Curriculum (for primary school and middle school…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Scientific Literacy, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries
Andrea Marcelli – Online Submission, 2022
Ecopedagogy demands we identify non-orthodox educational practices, under the assumption that only by valuing marginal or unconventional experiences we could face the educational challenges emerging from globalization. My dissertation opens with a theoretical study that is dedicated to the establishment of the best epistemological categories to…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Environmental Education, Educational Practices, Epistemology
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