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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"geography education"”.
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The professional geographer experience: issues for advancing collegiate geography education
… efforts from its professional communities, geography as a field of study experienced a tremendous revitalization during the past few decades. Collegiate geography educators, however, cannot afford to become satisfied; additional needs in both research and application persist if the …
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Examining Narratives of Place: Representations of Xinjiang in Tourism and Geography Education
… China, is represented in tourism and geographic education literature. The research demonstrates the limited and distorted place narratives of Xinjiang that are promoted by the government-backed tourist enterprise in China for consumption by English language speakers; as well as, the inadequate …
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Examining Narratives of Place: Representations of Xinjiang in Tourism and Geography Education
… China, is represented in tourism and geographic education literature. The research demonstrates the limited and distorted place narratives of Xinjiang that are promoted by the government-backed tourist enterprise in China for consumption by English language speakers; as well as, the inadequate …
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Local area planning and primary geography: enabling children’s active participation in local decision-making through primary geography education in the Republic of Ireland
… processes include better outcomes, as well as educational and personal development benefits for children. The main barriers preventing effective participation of children in planning processes include a failure to recognise children as capable citizens and institutional barriers, particularly a …
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Using geography to help teach history: dual-encoding history lesson plans
… how little most Americans know about the world. Geography education is the key to offsetting geographic illiteracy. Fortunately programs designed to improve K-12 geography education are growing in number and strength. How can we teach more and better geography within the school system? Given the …
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"I don't": A look at attitudes towards delaying marriage in a traditional community
… twenties and thirties about marriage and how geography (physical and sociological) impacts decisions. This research looks at women in a politically and religiously conservative area in the central Midwest. The research is meant to be exploratory in nature in order to grasp an understanding of …
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How do students learn about distant places? A critical analysis of how students’ perceptions of Ghana change over a unit of work
… shifted over the course of a unit of geography teaching on Ghana. The research agenda presented here thus focuses (as Said puts it) on the ‘ideas, … forms, … images and imaginings’ of contemporary geographies of otherness, and considers geography education furthermore as a form of …
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Una metodología para el proceso de asimilación del contenido de Biología Celular y Molecular I
… the students of the Bachelor's Degree in Biology-Geography Education and Biology-Chemistry. The systematization carried out on the process of assimilation of the contents of Cellular and Molecular Biology I in the training of Biology-Geography and Biology-Chemistry professors and their …
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Geography teachers' attitude and practice in secondary schools in Venda
Since the 1960s the discipline of geography has changed its emphasis from the descriptive and scientific approach to a holistic one. The subject now emphasizes the understanding of concepts, the development of skills, and the clarification of values and attitudes. These changes have necessitated a …
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The effectiveness of online interactive tutorial versus online help and printed manual in Project GeoSim's user assistance system
… is to develop simulation based introductory geography education software. To maximize the educational benefit of the software, Project GeoSim has developed three user assistance and training methods: Online Help, Printed Manual, and Online Interactive Tutorial. Using a population dynamics …
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Perceptions of environmental hazards and disasters in Geography among selected diploma Colleges of Zambia
… hazards and disasters in Zambia’s college geography education. The problem investigated by this study was that lecturers and students took what they taught and learnt respectively on the topic of ‘environmental hazards and disasters’ for granted without critically thinking about the …
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Unpacking Geography Teachers' Pedagogical Reasoning and Action While Teaching Sustainable Development in AP Human Geography
… for current and future generations. Despite geography's long tradition of studying human-environment relationships, geography educators have criticized the geographical community for being slow to take a leading role in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), stressing the importance of …
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Geospatial Thinking of Undergraduate Students in Public Universities in the United States
… and learning are essential components of geography education. The National Research Council’s 2006 report, Learning to Think Spatially, emphasized that people vary with respect to performance on spatial tasks. Geospatial thinking is a subset of spatial thinking in general. Geospatial …
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Constructing ambiguous identities negotiating race, respect and social change in 'Coloured' schools in Cape Town, South Africa
… of former and current teachers and students. Education is used as a site through which to explore the wider social impacts of social and spatial engineering during and subsequent to apartheid. Two key themes are examined in the space of education, those of racial identity and of respect. These …
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Overcoming Global Ignorance: Developing Geographic Literacy in a World Regional Geography Course
… of this study is that teaching students geography through a rigorous system that reinforces the Five Themes of geography through regular analysis of current events can help to improve geographic knowledge and understanding, and that this heuristic device can be expected to increase …
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Impact of demographic variables on Vietnameses' decision-making process for domestic tourism activity
… to include nine components: Gender, Age, Geography, Education Level, Employment status, Occupation, Income, Family status, Social class. After evaluating the different methodologies, the researcher concluded that conducting an empirical study would be the most suitable approach to address …
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High school pupils' attitudes towards mapwork on the Zambian Copperbelt
… component of the Zambian School Certificate Geography paper 1 (2218/1). This problem was against the background of the paucity of knowledge in this area of Geography Education. The study sought to address the following research questionsr(i) What are the attitudes of High school pupils …
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Geographic Literacy and World Knowledge Among Undergraduate College Students
… students at Virginia Tech. The survey included a geography "quiz" to assess knowledge of geography and world events and a background section to collect information about various factors that may influence the participants' geographic literacy. Over 400 students participated in the study. The data …
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Field Dependence-Independence and Computer-based Instruction in Geography
… differences have not been thoroughly pursued by geography educators, and field dependent learners are generally disadvantaged. Review of literature suggests that field dependent learners may perform well in hypermedia-based environments configured to support their learning needs. This study …
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A Study of the Relationship Between Current Event Knowledge and the Ability to Construct a Mental Map of the World
… two activities recommended for 12th graders by Geography for Life, National Geography Standards 1994, and the theory of spatial familiarity (Kitchen, 1994b; Gale et al., 1990, Golledge & Spector, 1978). One hundred-twenty eight students drawn from two courses offered at Virginia Tech completed a …
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