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ERIC Number: EJ604194
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0309-8265
Using Personal Research to Teach the Significance of Socially Constructed Categories.
Penrose, Jan
Journal of Geography in Higher Education, v23 n2 p227-39 Jul 1999
Offers one example of a lecture that can build on personal research experience to demonstrate the ways in which attitudes of categories influence the focus, design, and outcomes of research projects. Provides some suggestions for further developing the lecture material in a post-lecture tutorial session and/or assignment. (CMK)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Classification, Concept Formation, Guidelines, Higher Education, Human Geography, Lecture Method, Nationalism, Research Design, Social Influences
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Social Constructivism