Showing papers in "Journal of Geography in Higher Education in 2021"
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop partnership research in three ways by considering the ways in which pedagogic partnership may support students to encounter emotions and empower them to develop resilience, leading to positive wellbeing.
Abstract: Despite emotion being recognised as fundamental to learning, the affective aspects of learning have often been side-lined in higher education. In the context of rising student wellbeing challenges, exploring ways of supporting students and their emotions in learning is increasingly significant. Pedagogic partnerships have the potential to help students to recognise and work with their emotions in their learning in a positive manner. As such, pedagogic partnerships offer opportunities to promote resilience and enhance student wellbeing. In this paper, we develop partnership research in three ways by: 1) considering the ways in which pedagogic partnership may support students to encounter emotions and empower them to develop resilience, leading to positive wellbeing; 2) exploring how this process might be achieved in the disciplinary context of geography; and 3) developing an evidence-based model to summarise the potential effect of pedagogic partnership in enhancing student wellbeing. We draw upon two case studies of student-faculty and student-student pedagogic partnership within geography curricula in order to evidence that emotional awareness in learning comes through the joys and struggles of working in partnership. We argue that pedagogic partnership may be developed to support the wellbeing of modern-day higher education communities.
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TL;DR: The authors advocate for greater operationalizing of anti-racism pedagogies within the field of geography, arguing that the current theoretical and political changes in the study of geography need to be addressed.
Abstract: Responding to rising social tensions and ongoing theoretical and political changes in the study of geography, we advocate for greater operationalizing of anti-racism pedagogies within the field. Su...
29 citations
TL;DR: This paper presents a pathway to help instructors address both pedagogical and technological considerations of incorporating mobile learning into the curriculum and indicates an effective methodology for instructors to assess whether the mobile learning intervention is appropriate and adds value to their teaching.
Abstract: The extent of how mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, are seamlessly incorporated into the personal day-to-day life is not often considered by University instructors. Unfocused incorpo...
22 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline how Virtual Reality technologies, software and content can be used as a resource for teaching and learning in Geography. Drawing on the authors' first-hand experiences of...
Abstract: This article outlines how Virtual Reality (VR) technologies, software and content can be used as a resource for teaching and learning in Geography. Drawing on the authors’ first-hand experiences of...
22 citations
TL;DR: The authors argued that climate change is a "super-wicked" problem associated with challenges including food security, mass migration and biodiversity loss, and young people are increasingly expecting their university educati...
Abstract: Climate change is a ‘super-wicked’ problem associated with challenges including food security, mass migration and biodiversity loss. Young people are increasingly expecting their university educati...
17 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how the teaching and learning about "wicked" environmental problems may be fostered through an educational approach premised on the active imagination of the future.
Abstract: This paper investigates how the teaching and learning about “wicked” environmental problems may be fostered through an educational approach premised on futuring – the active imagination of the futu...
13 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore real-time blended learning in which online students are taught simu cally by online instructors and simulate the real-world environment. But they do not discuss the role of online students in the learning process.
Abstract: COVID-19 forced universities to engage in rapid improvisation and adoption of online learning and teaching. This paper explores “real-time blended” learning in which online students are taught simu...
12 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a pedagogic experiment focused on teaching future geography teachers to work with story maps with the use of three applications (Knight Lab StoryMapJS, Esri ArcGIS StoryMaps, and G...
Abstract: The paper presents pedagogic experiment focused on teaching future geography teachers to work with story maps with the use of three applications (Knight Lab StoryMapJS, Esri ArcGIS StoryMaps, and G...
10 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the opportunities to deploy digital technologies to research agendas and active learning in tertiary education and highlight the importance of active learning for research agendas in higher education.
Abstract: Opportunities to deploy digital technologies to research agendas and active learning in tertiary education are becoming more widespread. Despite this, many research techniques are still taught usin...
9 citations
TL;DR: This article studied why African doctoral students pursue PBP and their experiences of the pathway of PhD by publication (PBP) and found that the majority of these students are male. But little is known about why African students pursue the pathway.
Abstract: Several scholars have, over the years, written about their experiences of the pathway of PhD by publication (PBP). However, little is known about why African doctoral students pursue PBP and their ...
9 citations
TL;DR: Geocapabilities developed during team project-based fieldwork add value to Tourism Geography service modules in professional Tourism and Hospitality Management curricula as mentioned in this paper, which is based on a
Abstract: Geocapabilities developed during team project-based fieldwork add value to Tourism Geography service modules in professional Tourism and Hospitality Management curricula This article is based on a
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the benefits, barriers and challenges of using BYOD in fieldwork teaching through the views of higher education practitioners who have and have not us....
Abstract: This paper explores the benefits, barriers and challenges of BYOD (Bring Your Own [mobile] Device) in fieldwork teaching through the views of Higher Education practitioners who have and have not us...
TL;DR: In the UK, student-led movements have called for the decolonization of the Higher Education (HE) system in the UK as well as elsewhere as discussed by the authors, and much of the onus within British geography has been on decolonizing geog...
Abstract: Student-led movements have called for the decolonization of the Higher Education (HE) system in the UK, as well as elsewhere. Much of the onus within British geography has been on decolonizing geog...
TL;DR: This research presents a novel and scalable approach called “SmartMap” that automates the very labor-intensive and therefore time-heavy and expensive and expensive process of manually cataloging and cataloging places and locations for use in health care.
Abstract: Geographic technologies and perspectives are important for understanding health issues because places and locations influence human health and diseases. Despite the increasing use of a geographic i...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that climate change adaptation is a notorious example of a wicked problem and teachers need to have extensive knowledge to design high-quality education that addresses the wickedness and contributes to wic...
Abstract: Climate change adaptation is a notorious example of a wicked problem. Teachers need to have extensive knowledge to design high-quality education that addresses the wickedness and contributes to wic...
TL;DR: The authors explored the contribution to geography teaching which can be made by serious games and described the ways in which gaming has progressed from dissected maps and jigsaws through board games.
Abstract: This paper explores the contribution to geography teaching which can be made by serious games We describe the ways in which gaming has progressed from “dissected maps” and jigsaws through board ga
TL;DR: In this article, an exploratory account of the Nature of Geography (NOG) for geography education is presented. The proposed NOG framework describes geography through the theoretical offerings of the family res...
Abstract: This paper offers an exploratory account of the Nature of Geography (NOG) for geography education. The proposed NOG framework describes geography through the theoretical offerings of the family res...
TL;DR: Geographers have long advocated for decolonizing geographic research and curriculum to produce forms of anti-oppressive knowledge and learning as discussed by the authors. But these calls have become more prominent in recen...
Abstract: Geographers have long advocated for decolonizing geographic research and curriculum to produce forms of anti-oppressive knowledge and learning. While these calls have become more prominent in recen...
University of Massachusetts Amherst1, Makerere University2, Esri3, RMIT University4, Oak Ridge National Laboratory5, University of Southern California6, Victoria University of Wellington7, University of Leicester8, Ithaca College9, University of Salzburg10, Utrecht University11, Birkbeck, University of London12
TL;DR: The authors report the findings from two global panel discussions that, stimulated by the exceptional coronavirus pandemic of 2020/21, explored the concept of resilience in geographic science teaching a...
Abstract: We report the findings from two global panel “conversations” that, stimulated by the exceptional coronavirus pandemic of 2020/21, explored the concept of resilience in geographic science teaching a...
TL;DR: In this article, a learning by feeling approach is presented as a new way of teaching emotional geographies, where excursions into the affective landscape help students explore emotional geography through more creative, reflective, affective, and active learning assessment strategies.
Abstract: Learning by doing has become a common phrase in the scholarship of teaching and learning as research continues to emphasize the benefits of active student engagement in higher education. Instead of passive vessels to be filled with information, students become the architects of their own education. While traditional ways of teaching focus on what students should learn, there is now more interest in how they should learn. With the emotional turn in geography, research has increasingly focused on the lived experience and the emotional and affective dimensions of space and place. However, the question often remains as to how to bring such research into an active learning environment that extends beyond the classroom. Instead of learning by doing, learning by feeling is presented as a new way of teaching emotional geographies. Student projects from two courses in landscape geography reveal how excursions into the affective landscape help students explore emotional geographies through more creative, reflective, affective, and active learning assessment strategies. (Less)
TL;DR: Sustainability challenges are complex and call for the effective development of knowledge, skills, and abilities in current and new leaders as discussed by the authors. And new offerings in higher education provide sustainability, which is important for all of us.
Abstract: Sustainability challenges are complex and call for the effective development of knowledge, skills, and abilities in current and new leaders. New offerings in higher education provide sustainability...
TL;DR: In this article, the tension between the need to create spaces for unsettling feelings as part of a decolonisation of the curriculum in higher education and the need for creating a sense of safet...
Abstract: This paper addresses the tension between the need to create spaces for unsettling feelings as part of a decolonisation of the curriculum in Higher Education, and the need to create a sense of safet...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe their experience of teaching about environmental concerns in Aotearoa New Zealand and suggest how these concepts are taught is more challenging to teach than it is easy to understand.
Abstract: “Wicked problems” are complex to understand and challenging to teach. Our experience of teaching about environmental concerns in Aotearoa New Zealand suggests how these concepts are taught is more ...
TL;DR: Big ideas, sometimes referred to as key, core, fundamental or threshold concepts, are widely applicable concepts at the heart of disciplines that are or have been central and influential for their...
Abstract: Big ideas, sometimes referred to as key, core, fundamental or threshold concepts, are widely applicable concepts at the heart of disciplines that are or have been central and influential for their ...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how teacher trainees in higher education geography and external, non-scientific partners perceive and experience collaborations in an active teaching and learning approach, and find that teachers trainees and non-teachers perceive the collaboration as a positive experience.
Abstract: The paper investigates how teacher trainees in higher education geography and external, non-scientific partners perceive and experience collaborations in an active teaching and learning approach. S...
TL;DR: Two-Eyed Seeing as mentioned in this paper is a framework that calls for a weaving of perspectives to hold views of both Indigenous and Western knowledge simultaneously, and has been recognized as a valuable approach in Indigenous research but remains promising as a means to connect indigenous knowledge and epistemology to geography teaching practice.
Abstract: Addressing educational curricula and programs in post-secondary education for Reconciliation brings new opportunities and challenges for geography educators, including decolonizing and indigenizing their own teaching practices and perspectives. A team of geography educators, from vastly different geographies and contexts, explored their understandings and approaches to indigenization and found commonalities aligned with Two-Eyed Seeing, a framework that calls for a weaving of perspectives to hold views of both Indigenous and Western knowledge simultaneously. While originally applied in a teaching context, Two-Eyed Seeing is now recognized as a valuable approach in Indigenous research but remains promising as a means to connect indigenous knowledge and epistemology to geography teaching practice. A review of challenges in indigenization efforts in education indicates that Two-Eyed Seeing can address a number of pedagogical challenges, including reducing binary perspectives, providing a more holistic worldview, and creating a safe space for students. Realizing goals of reconciliation, decolonization, and indigenization requires contributions and efforts from across the geography education community, including from non-Indigenous actors who may not be active in the Indigenous Geographies space. Providing strategies and examples of approaches such as Two-Eyed Seeing is critical to support these educators and ensure the best learning opportunities for their students.
TL;DR: In this paper, a range of benefits might accrue from conducting teaching and learning outside in natural environments, and more broadly, from incorporating some kind of contact with nature in the curriculum.
Abstract: Accumulating evidence suggests that a range of benefits might accrue from conducting teaching and learning outside in natural environments, and more broadly, from incorporating some kind of contact...
TL;DR: A review of the literature on the use of commercially available city building games (CBGs) such as SimCity and Cities: Skylines, as learning tools in classroom instruction can be found in this paper.
Abstract: This paper presents a review of the literature on the use of commercially available city building games (CBGs), such as SimCity and Cities: Skylines, as learning tools in classroom instruction. Giv...
TL;DR: The relationship between art and geography continues to develop through a "creative re/turn" as more geographers apply creative methodologies within their research, and more artists si... as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The longstanding relationship between art and geography continues to develop through a “creative re/turn” as more geographers apply creative methodologies within their research, and more artists si...