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Direct linkAnderson, Jon – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2013
Film as a tool for learning offers considerable opportunity for enhancing student understanding. This paper reflects on the experiences of a project that required students to make a short film demonstrating their practical understanding of qualitative methods. In the psychogeographical tradition, students were asked to "drift" across the…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Methods Courses, Videoconferencing, Student Developed Materials
Sawyer, Christian – Geography Teacher, 2010
One of the author's most challenging and rewarding features in teaching AP Human Geography to high school-age thinkers is helping his students forge connections among the terms and concepts covered--"to see the connections among the dots." Too often, he finds his students first approach learning through the "memorize and regurgitate"…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Human Geography, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods
Dittmer, Jason – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2010
This paper addresses the potential for increased deployment of immersive virtual worlds in higher geographic education. An account of current practice regarding popular culture in the geography classroom is offered, focusing on the objectification of popular culture rather than its constitutive role vis-a-vis place. Current e-learning practice is…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Electronic Learning, Geography Instruction, Constructivism (Learning)
Peer reviewedHeatwole, Charles A. – Journal of Geography, 1993
Discusses an instructional strategy for a college-level, geography course in which changes in student's attitudes about specific U.S. states are observed. Describes the process of collecting and analyzing data from students about desirable and undesirable states. Concludes that physical environment and perceived social factors are important…
Descriptors: Cartography, Classroom Techniques, Geographic Distribution, Geography
Peer reviewedHathaway, James – Journal of Geography, 1993
Describes use of Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe's novel, "Things Fall Apart," in an introductory geography course at the secondary school or college level. Provides a summary of the book's story, which deals with the impact of colonialism and Christianity on the culture of eastern Nigeria. Includes recommended instructional strategies…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Design, Ethnocentrism
Download full textDavidson, Fiona M., Ed.; Leib, Jonathan I., Ed; Shelley, Fred M., Ed; Webster, Gerald R., Ed. – 1998
The essays in this collection originated at a symposium on the teaching of political geography focused on the implementation of Standard 13 (National Geography Standards), "How the forces of cooperation and conflict among people influence the division and control of earth's surface." The 16 chapters (or essays) in the collection are: (1)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Higher Education, Human Geography
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1986
This UNESCO newsletter contains six sections concerned with various aspects of population education. Section 1 deals with workshops for monitoring and evaluating population education programs. Section 2 evaluates the programs of six Asia-Pacific countries (China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, India, Pakistan, Philippines, and Thailand).…
Descriptors: Community Education, Demography, Foreign Countries, Human Geography
