Recently added articles from The Journal of Geography:
Aesthetics in Geography: Ideas for Teaching Geography Using Poetry
Sep 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT This article discusses how poetry can be used for teaching geography. The rational for using and writing poetry, its relationship to the National Standards for Geography, grade levels, pedagogical concerns associated with poetry writing, and subject integration are discussed ....
Spatial Thinking by Young Children: Neurologic Evidence for Early Development and "Educability"
Sep 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT The human brain appears to have several "regions" that are structured to do different kinds of spatial thinking, according to a large and rapidly growing body of research in a number of disciplines. Building on a previous review of research with older children and adults, this ...
A Field-Based Learning Experience for Introductory Level GIS Students
Sep 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT This article describes a pedagogic foundation for introducing a field-based geographic information systems (GIS) experience to the GIS curriculum at the university level and uses a dual evaluation methodology to monitor student learning and satisfaction. Students learned the ...
Virtual Egalitarianism, Critical Pedagogy, and Geographic Education
Sep 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT This article explores the implementation of critical pedagogic practices into a graduate level landscape seminar Web site. Critical pedagogy seeks to reconfigure student-teacher relationships and disrupt embedded power regimes within academia and society. Critical pedagogic ...
Mapping Polka and Its Ethnic Heritage in the United States
Mar 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Ethnic music is a strong indicator of cultural identity. Central and Eastern European ethnic groups have historically been associated with folk music traditions, such as polka, and radio broadcasting patterns in the United States reflect continued demand for and support of this ...
Children's Choice of Visual Variables for Thematic Maps
Mar 01, 2007; ... Abstract The aim of this research is to examine how children use visual variables to represent nominal and ordinal data on thematic maps. Greek students from first (six- to seven-year old), second (seven to eight-year-old), and third grades (eight- to nine-year-old), without any ...
Geography Education in the Context of "Academic Disadvantage" in South Africa
Mar 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Findings related to the background knowledge, writing, and reading of disadvantaged students in a South African university geography department are discussed. The notion "academic discourse community" is used as an analytical framework. Findings indicate that students and ...
Aaron's Solution, Instructor's Problem: Teaching Surface Analysis Using GIS
Mar 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Teaching GIS is relatively simple, a matter of helping students develop familiarity with the software. Mapping as an aid to thinking is harder to instruct. This article presents a laboratory and lecture package developed to teach the utility of mapping in a course on spatial ...
Professional Development: Teachers Use of GIS to Enhance Student Learning
Mar 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT This article explains a professional development experience of fifth to twelfth grade teachers in using geographic information systems (GIS) and global positioning systems (GPS) technologies to enhance classroom teaching and learning environments. A key challenge faced by the ...
What the Best College Teachers Do
Mar 01, 2007; ... What the Best College Teachers Do Edited by Ken Bain Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2004. 207 pages. Hardcover ($21.95). ISBN: 0-674-01325-5 Dr. Ken Bain serves as Vice Provost for Instruction and Director of Montclair State University's Teaching and Learning ...
Advanced Placement Human Geography and the Annual Meetings of the National Council for Geographic Education
Jan 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Members of the National Council for Geographic Education have been instrumental in the creation, launch, and early success of Advanced Placement Human Geography. Annual meetings of the Council have served as a forum for spreading the word about the course and its follow-up ...
Citation for Harm J. de Blij, Ph.D. 2006 Recipient of the George J. Miller Award for Distinguished Service to Geographic Education
Jan 01, 2007; ... Being a geographer in the United States during the past several decades has inevitably meant taking on a cause. That cause is a product of the systematic marginalization of the discipline in K-12 education, the closing of geography departments at some of the nation's leading universities, and ...
Diurnal Soil Temperature Effects within the GLOBE® Program Dataset
Jan 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT Long-term collection of soil temperature with depth is important when studying climate change. The international program GLOBE® provides an excellent opportunity to collect such data, although currently endorsed temperature collection protocols need to be refined. To enhance ...
Muslim American Identities and Diversity
Jan 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT This article consists of two parts. The first part provides an overview of Muslim Americans and the role of Islam in their lives. The second part of the article includes a classroom exercise about how to teach Islam and Muslim Americans. The main vehicle for this exercise is a ...
Pittsburgh and the Appalachians: Cultural and Natural Resources in a Postindustrial Age
Jan 01, 2007; ... Pittsburgh and the Appalachians: Cultural and Natural Resources in a Postindustrial Age Edited by Joseph L. Scarpaci and Kevin J. Patrick Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. 264 pages. Cloth ($30.00). ISBN: 0822942828. Pittsburgh, this nation's quintessential ...
Race (and Space) Matters: Exploring Residential Segregation to Introduce Geography in an Interdisciplinary Curriculum
Jan 01, 2007; ... ABSTRACT This article discusses a class project on residential segregation in Florida's metropolitan areas for which students analyzed trends regarding African Americans relative to white populations using data from 1980 to 2000. The project provided a means of teaching the importance of ...
Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region
Jan 01, 2007; ... Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region John C. Hudson Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. 356 pages, maps, figures, and photographs. Hardcover ($45). ISBN: 0-226-35806-2. Few places on the planet are as physically and culturally anomalous as Chicago and ...
Teaching Geography with 3-D Visualization Technology
Nov 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Technology that helps students view images in three dimensions (3-D) can support a broad range of learning styles. "GeoWall systems" are visualization tools that allow scientists, teachers, and students to project stereographic images and view them in 3-D. We developed and ...
Geography Undergraduate Program Assessment
Nov 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Assessment of geography undergraduate programs, which incorporate external reviews and concomitant departmental self-studies, attempt to assure pedagogical excellence within uncompromising commitments to successful student learning outcomes, currency of the knowledge and skills ...
Using Technology and Inquiry to Improve Student Understanding of Watershed Concepts
Nov 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This paper presents the design, implementation and assessment of the Columbia River Basin Environmental Research Project (CERP) curriculum. CERP is an online inquiry-based, regional geographic curriculum designed to improve technology skills and content knowledge about water ...