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Daniel Gutiérrez-Ujaque; Monica Montserrat Degen – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed an alarming chasm between traditional higher education pedagogies and the lived experiences of students, posing new challenges to educators worldwide . Addressing this, our study proposes a curricular paradigm shift that foregrounds sensory and embodied learning. Influenced by a Critical Pedagogy of Place…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Teaching Styles, Sensory Experience, Educational Environment
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Bennett, Paul W. – History and Social Science Teacher, 1977
Describes a project which investigates urban poverty through a field study approach. The article examines course aims and objectives, pre-planning and organization, activities, and program assessment. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Interaction, Learning Activities, School Community Relationship
Hosokawa, Fumiko – 1979
This paper analyzes an instructional approach based on a student-designed and constructed model of a city and describes how this approach was used in a college-level sociology class on ethnic relations in the city. The approach is called 'City Building.' The major objective of this approach is to bring social life into the classroom. Students…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Environment, Educational Objectives, Ethnic Studies
Dunne, Robert J. – 1984
The introduction of nontraditional teaching techniques into a solid framework of traditional teaching can greatly increase student motivation and attention. Nontraditional methods involve students as dynamic actors in the educational process in three ways: by increasing student motivation, maximizing the level of subtlety or detail achieved, and…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
Doherty, Joan; Walker, William L. – 1975
The purpose of this monograph is to present some recent trends on current issues that should be taught in elementary social studies courses. It is designed to provide information for teachers who wish to make their social studies programs more relevant to the times. The topics under consideration have been selected because they are relatively new…
Descriptors: American Studies, Area Studies, Course Descriptions, Educational Improvement