ERIC Number: EJ1465911
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 18
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ISSN: ISSN-0309-8265
EISSN: EISSN-1466-1845
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Ethnogeomorphology and Landscape-as-Place: Bridging Physical, Human, and GIS Geographies in Higher Education
Avinoam Meir1
Journal of Geography in Higher Education, v49 n2 p155-172 2025
Separation between human, physical, and GIS geographies is risky to geography's disciplinary survival. How can they be bridged through teaching in higher education? I dwell first upon the separation as rooted in the emergence of modern science and geography, the culture-nature binary, Kant's classification of knowledge, and positivistic science. Shortcomings in substance and method of recent attempts at bridging the geographies are then critically reviewed. This is followed by suggesting common denominators of subdisciplinary internal critical processes as an infrastructure for a bridge. I then propose the concept of place as core to geography and a conceptual gate for bridging the geographies into which nature and culture converge relationally. It is rooted in the concepts of "ethnogeomorphology" and sentient "landscape-as-place" proposed by human and physical geographers studying Australian and Aotearoa New Zealander Aborigines and Maori peoples. Based on these concepts and the above-reviewed processes in geography, principles for building an undergraduate bridging course are then proposed. Challenges to geography as a discipline and geographers as humans related to the proposed approach and how it may contribute to strengthening geography's disciplinary status in science conclude this article.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Ethnic Groups, Pacific Islanders, Indigenous Populations, Place Based Education, Ethnography, Human Geography, Physical Geography, Geographic Information Systems, Integrated Curriculum, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia; New Zealand
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel