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Talula Pontuti; Serena Madsen; Lundquist; Richard M. Medina – Journal of Geography, 2024
This article describes the process taken by members of a seminar course on radical geography in a primarily quantitative geography department. This course was taught during tumultuous times necessitating the need to explore radical topics and abstract conceptualizations of space and place. We offer our experiences and lessons learned while…
Descriptors: Ideology, Geography Instruction, Geographic Concepts, Teaching Methods
Aubrey Golightly; Sandra Sprenger – Journal of Geography, 2024
Learner-centered instruction fosters 21st-century skills and must be implemented in geography classrooms. In this South African case study, most teachers predominantly implemented teacher-centered instruction. The analysis of the results established a moderate but highly significant relationship between geography teachers' years of teaching and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Strategies
Jia Lu – Journal of Geography, 2024
Practical training is important for community college students to gain high-impact real-world experience. This study aims to evaluate the impact of practical training of remote internships of community college and two-year associate degree students on spatiotemporal GIS learning during the pandemic. Anonymous pre- and post-internship surveys and…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Geography Instruction, Internship Programs, Distance Education
Sojung Huh; Injeong Jo – Journal of Geography, 2024
The aim of this study is to explore the pedagogical reasoning and action of high school geography teachers when teaching sustainable development within the context of the Advanced Placement Human Geography classroom. Through a multiple case study approach, this research examines the instructional decisions and rationales of seven APHG teachers…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Integrated Curriculum
P. Fraile-Jurado; E. Sánchez-Rodríguez; V. Rodriguez-Galiano – Journal of Geography, 2024
This study examined how studying Geography and using personal landscape photography impact university-level Physical Geography students' ecological perspectives. A survey, employing the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP), was conducted on 77 History undergraduates at the semester's start and end. The results showed a significant shift toward more…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Photography, Ecology, Student Attitudes
Yanhua Xu; Ziqing Ou; Zhiting Wu; Yating Lin; Wei Zeng; Jiayan Yang; Jialu Li; Mengfan Shan; Yunqin Li – Journal of Geography, 2024
Measurement is significant in geospatial thinking research. This study evaluated the geospatial thinking of pre-service geography teachers through an orienteering design tasks and subjective evaluation methods. Moreover, it analyzed their level of geospatial thinking, difficulty of evaluation indicators and rater severity with the Many-Faceted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teachers, Geography Instruction
Yujing He; Sirpa Tani; Mikko Puustinen – Journal of Geography, 2024
Multiple perspectives on geographical thinking are lacking in the teaching of climate change in school geography. This study establishes an epistemic model through a co-construction design to support geography teachers' curriculum making with respect to climate change. We developed the preliminary model with four main geographical perspectives,…
Descriptors: Climate, Geography, Curriculum Development, Ecology
Chunyu Ma; Xiaoxu Lu – Journal of Geography, 2024
Thinking about the interactions among geographical elements, referred to here as geographical interrelationships thinking, is a crucial part of geographical synthetic thinking. Causal diagrams are commonly employed in geography to cultivate students' geographical synthetic thinking. To test the hypothesis that teaching with geographical causal…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Correlation, Thinking Skills
Heintzman, Ryan; Brandi, Aldo; Kelley, Madeline; Marvin, M. Colin – Journal of Geography, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic forced educational institutions around the globe to close or move to a remote format. This article focuses on the transition of an in-person undergraduate physical geography lab to online synchronous learning during the Fall 2020 semester. Findings suggest the importance of abundant learning materials as well as showing…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Physical Geography, Geography Instruction
Bendl, Tomáš; Marada, Miroslav; Havelková, Lenka – Journal of Geography, 2023
Problem-solving skills are often considered to be the key skills in today's world, and their importance in geography education is widely recognized. However, empirical evidence analyzing whether and how teachers develop problem-solving skills during geography lessons is especially scarce in the context of preservice teachers. Accordingly, we…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Geography Instruction, Problem Solving, Teaching Styles
Grobelski, Tiffany; Versluis, Anna; McClelland, Jesse – Journal of Geography, 2023
This paper details the process and results of redesigning an introductory undergraduate World Geography course, from a survey of world regions to a project-based course. Through two student projects, one tracing commodities and another eliciting migration experiences, the course renders the world not as the sum of discrete regions but as the…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Student Projects, Active Learning, Introductory Courses
Kim, Minsung – Journal of Geography, 2023
This study examined whether an emotional geography-based community participation project enhanced students' civic engagement competence. The participants identified community problems based on emotional geographies, created their own spatial stories using spatial analysis and emotional mapping, and finally proposed spatial development strategies.…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Competence, Psychological Patterns, Geography Instruction
Smit, Eefje; Tuithof, Hanneke; Savelsbergh, Elwin; Béneker, Tine – Journal of Geography, 2023
Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) is the knowledge teachers use to teach a specific subject to a specific audience. The importance of PCK to quality teaching is widely recognized. However, an overview of research about geography teachers' PCK is missing. To fill this gap, we conducted a systematic review. We analyzed 43 empirical studies, but…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Geography Instruction, Earth Science, Teaching Methods
Jones, Mark C. – Journal of Geography, 2023
The article explains the limited presence of geography in New England higher education as a result of the structure of the region's higher education system. Blending the geography and history of education literatures, it identifies type of control (public vs. private), institution type, urban location, multi-campus university systems, and the weak…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Geography, Incidence, Higher Education
Mathews, Adam J.; DeChano-Cook, Lisa M.; Bloom, Cynthia – Journal of Geography, 2023
The objective of this research was to determine if and to what extent students' learning of geographic concepts can be improved through incorporation of hands-on play with Play-Doh® and LEGO® and geospatial technologies, specifically drones. The project team conducted six months of biweekly, collaborative instruction at Comstock Middle School in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Toys