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Grant, Linda; And Others – Teaching Sociology, 1981
Using a tour of Detroit as a case study, this article explains how a well-designed urban tour can make large-scale processes visible to students. Information is presented on ways in which the Detroit tour helped students think analytically about large-scale processes and about how teachers can adapt the Detroit format to tours of other cities. (DB)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Experiential Learning, Higher Education
Paulston, Rolland G.; Liebman, Martin – 1993
This document demonstrates how social cartography can be used in social research to include individuals and cultural clusters who want their own narratives included in the social discourse. Social cartography is defined as the creation of maps addressing questions of location in the social milieu. Visual images, depicting on the two dimensional…
Descriptors: Cartography, Cultural Pluralism, Geographic Concepts, Higher Education

Ogborn, Miles – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1992
Discusses the teaching of a qualitative historical geography course focusing on Victorian Britain. Describes how qualitative research methods can be used in both contemporary human geography and historical geography. Includes course modifications that were suggested by students. (CFR)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Geography Instruction, Higher Education