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Pesaresi, Cristano; Van Der Schee, Joop; Pavia, Davide – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2017
The project "3D and 4D Simulations for Landscape Reconstruction and Damage Scenarios: GIS Pilot Applications" has been devised with the intention to deal with the demand for research, innovation and applicative methodology on the part of the international programme, requiring concrete results to increase the capacity to know, anticipate…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Simulated Environment, Natural Disasters, Geometric Concepts
Guaran, Andrea – Romanian Review of Geographical Education, 2016
This paper focuses on the reflection on the relationship between values and methodological principles of Outdoor Education and spatial and geographical education perspectives, especially in pre-school and primary school, which relates to the age between 3 and 10 years. Outdoor Education is an educational practice that is already rooted in the…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Geography, Geography Instruction, Reflection
Let's Plan the School Garden: A Participatory Project on Sustainability in a Nursery School in Padua
Rocca, Lorena; Donadelli, Giovanni; Ziliotto, Sonia – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2012
The increasing complexity of urban regions and the lack of green areas in the neighborhoods have turned the cities less and less child-friendly. In order to locally face these situations, the project "Small steps of Agenda 21," which promoted a participatory planning experience for children focused on the green area of their school, was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gardening, Outdoor Education, Sustainability
Sarno, Emilia – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2012
This contribution explains the connection between spatial intelligence and spatial competences and by indicating how the first is the cognitive matrix of abilities necessary to move in space as well as to represent it. Indeed, two are principal factors involved in the spatial intelligence: orientation and representation. Both are based on a close…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Intelligence, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
Sarno, Emilia – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2011
In this paper some pathways of geographical analysis will be illustrated and discussed, seen from a didactic point of view. The geographical theme chosen is that of migration. Migratory phenomena and the problems associated with it have always been a classic theme of geography; today however, they are of a particular interest and will allow us to…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Citizenship Education, Teaching Methods, Migration Patterns
Giorda, Cristiano; Di Palma, Maria Teresa – Review of International Geographical Education Online, 2011
This article describes an important document compiled by a group of Italian geographers who teach in the Teaching Sciences faculty. Twenty-two university professors in an online community debated concepts and compared ideas in order to establish content, methods and didactic approaches to be applied when training Primary School teachers (pupils…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Geography, Elementary School Teachers, Geography Instruction
Wilks, Judith – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2010
This research was designed to investigate innovative practices associated with child-friendly cities initiatives in the United Kingdom and Italy and how civics and citizenship initiatives are being applied into practical programmes of exploration and learning in geography and environmental education. The Child-Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Children, Citizenship Education
Planinc, Tatjana Resnik – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2008
This paper discusses the teaching of the values of space, and the development of sustainable regions, as viewed through a prism of values, and which should become an integral part of the geography curriculum. The author is convinced that new methodologies for the teaching of space-related topics in primary and secondary schools across Europe…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Perception, Geography Instruction, Geography
Cecioni, Ester – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2005
Geography is defined as "a transition point between natural temporality and human temporality" (Maragliano, 1998). Presented like this, geography seems, at least at first sight, to assume an inexorable function as a linking discipline between nature and society. Unfortunately this pivotal role is not realised, given that geography is…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Citizenship Education, Geography, Foreign Countries
Kaminske, Volker – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2005
The EU offers opportunities to schools - within the Comenius Programme - to develop and implement specific studies in which pedagogical, lingual and science-oriented objectives can be internationally combined if schools from at least three European countries are ready to share in a common project. Geography seems to be especially suited for such…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Cooperation, Geography Instruction, Program Descriptions