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Catherine Waite – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
This article reflects on the author's experience of developing a standalone geographies of sport module that is taught using an active blended learning (ABL) approach. The article argues that an ABL pedagogy is an effective way of teaching meaningful sports geography to undergraduate students. It discusses how the approach allows a diverse range…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Blended Learning, Teaching Methods, Undergraduate Students
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John Clayton; Paul Griffin; Graham Mowl – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2024
In this paper we reflect on our experiences teaching human geography across two modules that pedagogically centre student reflexivity through content that has potential to be dis-comforting. Drawing upon student experiences on two final year option modules, relating to social and spatial exclusion and "race", ethnicity and multiculture,…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Human Geography, Learning Experience
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Affolderbach, Julia – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
The urgency of the current climate crisis emphasizes the need for university graduates equipped with relevant knowledge and skills to tackle environmental and social problems such as material consumption, environmental degradation and inequality at all spatial scales. Geographic and spatially sensitive concepts and approaches to sustainability and…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education, Sustainability, Climate
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Escobar Varela, Miguel – Research in Drama Education, 2019
Short fieldtrips offer unique opportunities to teach cultural relativism in context. Through travel, theatrical practices can be experienced as nodes in complex social webs, where the material aspects of performance are inseparable from the people who make, sponsor and attend performances. The author reflects on his experiences organising theatre…
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Drama, Field Trips, Foreign Countries
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Weiss, Günther; Gohrbandt, Elisabeth – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2018
Although inquiry-based learning is connected with a number of advantages, especially in the field of human geography, very little research has been carried out in lessons by the learners themselves to date. The aim of the study at hand is, therefore, to facilitate the process of solving problems from the sphere of human geography through the use…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Human Geography, Research Methodology
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Adanali, Rukiye – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
In this study, views of students about the applicability of the digital documentary production through fieldwork model and the effect of it on their problem-solving skills were examined. The study was conducted in Turkey, in 2016-2017 spring term with 15 geography teacher candidates who chosen by convenience sampling method. In this study, within…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Problem Solving, Effect Size, Creative Thinking
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di Palma, Maria Teresa – Journal of Geography, 2009
Films are often used in schools to illustrate geography, but doing so may favor mainly passive learning. An experiment with twenty-eight pupils aged thirteen years (a whole class) had the aim of using cinema to promote active geographical learning. First, it was ascertained what the dominant geographical stereotypes were among the pupils and the…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Films, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students