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Yolanda C. Lin; Chris S. Duvall; Carolyn J. Hushman; Anna C. Marklin – Geography Teacher, 2025
Information design is the theory and practice of presenting information through the pairing of graphic and verbal content. It is important in the sciences because of the centrality of data visualization in research and teaching. This paper seeks to build the case for the inclusion of information design within both the Geography and university- or…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Geography, Geography Instruction, Curriculum Development
Grace Healy; Lauren Hammond – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2025
In this article, we engage with undergraduate geography students' reflections on their geography education. We begin by examining the position of geography within education across the British Isles. Following this, we critically consider how geography education is shaped by "the gap" between school and university geography and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Geography Instruction, Curriculum Development
Heide K. Bruckner – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
In recent years, there have been numerous calls for Geographers working in higher education to put into practice anti-racist pedagogies. Less well-developed is scholarship on the approaches which expand students' understanding of race and the socio-spatial and material processes of their own racialization. Within the context of food geographies,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Food, Race, Geography
Ravinesh Rohit Prasad; Mohammed Khalid Hassan – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2025
This paper investigates the causes of students' preference and disinclination for high school geography. The paper draws on data from 135 students from years 11, 12, and 13 (aged 16-18 years) from seven secondary schools in the Ba district, Western division, Fiji Islands. We used the posterior inductive reduction model to analyze and identify the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Geography Instruction
Guffey, Sarah K.; Slater, Timothy F. – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
In the past few decades, scientific and educational entities in the United States have repeatedly expended considerable fiscal and human resources in an effort to establish contemporary education standards, curriculum frameworks, and assessment tools. These efforts are intended to reform the quantity and quality of K-16 Earth science education…
Descriptors: Geology, Misconceptions, Academic Standards, Educational Change
Collins, Larianne – Journal of Geography, 2018
This study investigates whether spatial learning outcomes differ with respect to different instructional media. Spatial thinking skills were tested pre- and postlesson implementation via the spatial thinking ability test as eighth grade students participated in either paper-based or digital map-based instruction. Students' attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Thinking Skills, Electronic Learning, Cognitive Tests
Tanyanyiwa, Vincent Itai – SAGE Open, 2019
Indigenous African education grew out of the immediate environment, real or imaginary, where people had knowledge of the environment. Indigenous education inculcated a religious attitude that imbued courtesy, generosity, and honesty. At colonization, Africans were thought of as primitive although they had their own systems, contents, and methods…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Climate, Curriculum Development, Geography Instruction
Piróg, Danuta – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
The article presents results of a survey conducted among Polish geography graduates. They were asked questions about the relevance of their degree to their transition from university studies to the job market. The research project revealed that less than half of them found a job. Out of working graduates, one in five geographers worked in an area…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Geography Instruction, Graduate Surveys
Bertule, Dace; Burgmanis, Girts; Namsone, Dace – International Baltic Symposium on Science and Technology Education, 2019
In Latvia, a new curriculum is introduced to provide the opportunity to acquire skills in multidisciplinary context. To achieve that, schools need to implement projects. In this paper, one example of a multidisciplinary project where fieldwork is involved is described. The aim of the research was to create support materials for teachers and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Instructional Materials, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries
Catling, Simon – Curriculum Journal, 2013
The phrase "curriculum making" has recently been used to describe medium-term planning and teachers' enactment of such planning in the classroom. This narrows the term's initial use from that in the first half of the twentieth century when it was employed inclusively from national programmes to lesson planning. While considering related…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Curriculum Development
Ozmusul, Mustafa, Ed. – Online Submission, 2018
These proceedings contain the abstracts of papers of EDUSREF 2018, which was held in Ankara, Turkey on 6-7 April 2018. Establishing in 2018 as a scientific initiative; Education, Society & Reform Research (EDUSREF-2018) is an International Conference that aims to bridge the knowledge gap, promote social research esteem, and produce democratic…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Social Systems, Social Integration

Sauri-Pujol, David – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1993
Describes a teaching experience in which a unit on environmental issues was added to a college-level human geography course. Asserts that environmental topics are not well-integrated into most geography courses. Concludes that the students enjoyed the experience but suggested that the environmental topics be integrated throughout the entire course…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Environmental Education
Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2014
The "International Society for the Social Studies (ISSS) Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. The following papers are included in the 2014 proceedings: (1) Legal Profession in the Technological Era with Special Reference to Women Lawyers in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Social Studies, Lawyers, Females
Kurfman, Dana; And Others – 1969
The teacher and student field-test evaluation results from the Manufacturing and Agriculture Unit of the High School Geography Project are presented in this report. In 1968-69, 26 teachers and approximately 950 students from 22 states participated in the trial use of the 11 activities in this unit. The results indicated that three units received…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Formative Evaluation
Monk, Janice – 1976
Components of national undergraduate geography major curricula are reviewed, followed by discussion of a behavioral approach to curriculum theory and a case study which incorporates behavioral objectives in curriculum development. Surveys in 1968 and 1974 revealed that most undergraduate major geography programs are loosely structured and contain…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Case Studies, Concept Teaching, Course Objectives