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Krause, Uwe; Béneker, Tine; van Tartwijk, Jan; Maier, Veit – London Review of Education, 2021
Tasks are crucial for gaining access to powerful knowledge in geography and for fostering higher-order thinking in lessons; therefore, they are key to subject-specific pedagogy. After analysing tasks in geography textbooks for upper secondary education, it was revealed that higher-order thinking barely occurs in textbooks in the Netherlands and is…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Geography Instruction, Teaching Methods, Textbooks
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Bouwmans, Matthijs; Béneker, Tine – London Review of Education, 2018
This article explores the usefulness of Maude's translation of Young's idea of powerful knowledge into geography education. Maude's classification of five types of powerful knowledge in geography education was used to analyse the written curriculum of the 'human and society' interdisciplinary domain in four schools in the Netherlands. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography Instruction, Knowledge Level, Interdisciplinary Approach