Describes an undergraduate course that aims at increasing student awareness of the workplace, developing understanding of how environmental policies interact with working practices, and equipping students with skills for investigating and reporting employment-related environmental issues. Students conduct an environmental assessment of a…

Discusses a number of educational strategies that can be used when incorporating news material into geography instruction. Specifically addresses the many ways that error, bias, and distortion concerning geographic information appear in the media and why they appear. Includes a brief bibliography on geography, the environment, and the mass media.…

Presents the semiannual annotated bibliography of a selection of recent scholarly and general reference works in the areas of philosophy, religion, literature, games, music, art, political science, sociology, women's studies, history and area studies, geography, and new editions. (Author/LRW)

Explores the life of Eloise Richards Payne in order to address becoming a professional teacher around 1800. Describes the type of child interested in becoming an art teacher, the role of art in Payne's early education, where she received ideas about art after schooling, and what she needed to become a teacher. (CMK)

Describes a school-based curriculum project involving 12 student teachers studying geography and modern foreign languages on a one-year Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) course in the University of Durham (England) in which they visited Olomouc (Czech Republic) for two weeks to plan and prepare teaching materials and carry out their…

Identifies the uses of plat books in teaching history and historical geography focusing on Washtenaw County in southeast Michigan as an example. States that plat books offer maps that indicate land ownership in addition to property location and size. Discusses French land claims and the Land Ordinance of 1785. Includes maps. (CMK)

This paper describes two innovative and linked approaches to teaching and student learning in the environmental and development geography of the Mekong region, a region remote from students' normal experiential options. The first approach is field-based learning through Field Schools carried out in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand. The second approach…

Each month, "Curriculum Review" offers teachers mutual support, the sharing of ideas, and words of encouragement to help them face challenges in the classroom. The May 2004 issue of "Curriculum Review" contains the following articles: (1) "Inspiring Words for Educators"; (2) "We Hear from Readers"; (3) "Last Month in Education"; (4) "What They're…

To get some notion of how deeply scholars have been affected by Hurricane Katrina, one might look to someone like Dr. Erma Lawson, a medical sociologist from the University of North Texas. Lawson, who has coordinated the assistance efforts for the Association of Black Sociologists, has not hesitated to call on colleagues, graduate students, civil…

This paper discusses findings from research conducted in an inner-city middle school in England where the majority of pupils spoke languages other than English as a first language. The research was motivated both by a belief that the language needs of English as an additional language (EAL) pupils are not properly addressed in the National…

Internationally, fieldwork is seen as intrinsic to geographical education. Fieldwork is here defined as any study of the environment that takes place outside the classroom. This paper extends a previous study of student perceptions of the impacts on their learning of a cancellation of fieldwork caused by an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in…

Because of its small size, the Chickasaw Nation has been relegated to the margin of studies of eastern Woodlands tribes and rarely included in narratives of Southern history. This omission is regrettable because the Chickasaws were at the center of resistance to French expansion in the region. And while representative of other southeastern…

This is a qualitative study of the challenges identified by geography student teachers in their learning to teach about education for sustainable development in English secondary schools. The student teachers were participating in a development and research study in the context of an established initial teacher education programme consisting of…

Contending that culture is one of the most potentially divisive signifiers of human activity, this paper probes some of the complexities that attend the (un)popular culture of illicit drug-using with which many young people in contemporary Britain are identified. Irvine Welsh's multi-media drugs narrative "Trainspotting" is drawn on to…

Examining the vital relation between immigrants' race or ethnicity, language, documented or undocumented legal status, and multicultural citizenship education is essential in the reconceptualization of current curricula and practice. The analysis provides relevant critiques of the traditional American History and citizenship curricula that are…