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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"geographical knowledge"”.
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How do ethnic minority students represent geographical knowledge? Exploring the stories that relate to representations and link with post-14 subject choices.
… is an optional subject and how students view geographical knowledge may influence their GCSE and A level subject choices. This study uses an intersectional theoretical lens to explore representations of geographical knowledge by students of different ethnicities, the stories that relate to …
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Uma análise sócio-espacial do mercado público do bairro da Torre João pessoa/PB.
… commercial fields contribute to the expansion of geographical knowledge in urban and environmental sphere. This work aims to analyze the physical and social space of the Public Market of the neighborhood, called Torre. Its features, traders who work there, the historicity of the place, goods, …
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Geographies that matter: Pregnant bodies in public places
… and femininity). This dichotomy underpins human geographical knowledge as it is currently constituted. I examine examples from time-geography, humanistic geography, medical geography and feminist geography in order to illustrate the ways in which the body is Othered. This Othering of the body in …
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Evaluating Repeat Photography in Documenting Natural and Cultural Landscape Changes: a Changing Crown of the Continent Ecosystem between 1899 and 2010
Photography can be an invaluable tool in human geographical research, for example, to better understand the importance of place to people. Increasingly, geographers are looking at how photography can play an active role in the construction of geographical knowledge, that is, how photographs are …
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Evaluating Repeat Photography in Documenting Natural and Cultural Landscape Changes: a Changing Crown of the Continent Ecosystem between 1899 and 2010
Photography can be an invaluable tool in human geographical research, for example, to better understand the importance of place to people. Increasingly, geographers are looking at how photography can play an active role in the construction of geographical knowledge, that is, how photographs are …
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Peter Lanyon: A Life Geographic
… open up a dialogue between the biographical and geographical, exploring a path between past and present, using material objects alongside memories and narratives affected by those objects. I explore material, embodied and sensuous relationships between landscape, history and biography and look …
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Teenage citizenship geographies: Rural spaces of exclusion, education and creativity
… spaces and identities. Contributing to new geographical knowledge(s), this thesis concludes by calling for schools and (rural) communities to support and respect teenagers' own interests, needs, aspirations and current acts of citizenship in their own diverse spaces. Furthermore, it is …
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Writing Geography: Traversing Early Modern English Chorographies
… reduction and reward curiosity. As a genre of geographical writing focused on locally-scaled, regional surveys, chorographies are characterized by their rich combinations of intellectual considerations and literary forms. To illuminate the conventions of style and subject matter that typify the …
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The Role of Sound Recordings in the Revitalisation of Minority Languages of the Ainu People (Japan) and the West Frisians (the Netherlands)
… contribution to the research of linguistic and geographical knowledge about the revitalisation of endangered languages, the role of technology in language revitalisation and to the debate on saving linguistic and cultural diversity in the world.
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Francophone literary perceptions of Celtic space in Britain, 1100-1300
… a window both into contemporary Francophone knowledge of Celtic spaces, and into how they existed within the thought world of the Francophone elite. The first section of this thesis, ‘Geographical knowledge and localisation’, examines how the narratives of *Fouke le Fitz Waryn*, the *Roman de …
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Spatio-temporal Event Detection and Forecasting in Social Media
Nowadays, knowledge discovery on social media is attracting growing interest. Social media has become more than a communication tool, effectively functioning as a social sensor for our society. This dissertation focuses on the development of methods for social media-based spatiotemporal event …
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'Home is where the heart is': everyday geographies of young heterosexual couples' love in and of homes
… that surround home. The heteronormativity of geographical discourse means that the relationship between heterosexuality, love and home is often taken-for-granted as ‘natural’ and ‘normal’ and as such is left ‘invisible’ and unremarked upon. Making the relationship between heterosexuality, love …
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The effects of M-learning within GCSE geography : can mobile technology enhance the quality of pupils' learning?
… information. M-learning also extended not only geographical knowledge but History and ICT knowledge and expertise. In support of Prensky’s (2001) notion of ‘digital natives’ m- learning tapped into the pupils’ technological culture and presented them with opportunities to lead, work …