Teaching human geography : theories and practice in thinking geographically / edited by Erin Hogan Fouberg (Professor of Geography and Associate Provost, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota) and Janet Stuhrenberg Smith (Emeritus Professor of Geography, Department of Geography and Earth Science, Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, US).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hogan Fouberg, Erin, editor.

Stuhrenberg Smith, Janet, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar guides to teaching

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human geography--Study and teaching.

Human geography.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"This timely book examines advances in teaching and learning at undergraduate level from the disciplines of geography education, neuroscience and learning science. Connecting these disciplines, the chapters integrate research on how students learn and explain how to teach students to think geographically and develop a deeper understanding of their world. Questioning what it means to think geographically, the contributors identify ten elements that characterize thinking geographically including the weaving of various perspectives, making connections, creating meaning through spatial thinking, relational thinking and multi-scalar thinking. The book offers a collection of turnkey exercises designed by geography educators for use in human geography courses at universities. These insightful exercises are designed to assist with promoting geographic thinking and learning, and provide a matrix that serves as an outstanding resource. Teaching Human Geography makes a unique and significant contribution to geography education as an excellent resource for instructors looking to improve their practice and facilitate learning. Addressing how geography teaching can be transformed, it will also improve undergraduates' ability to think geographically by integrating research in learning science and geography education"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword by Donald Zeigler

Part I. Theories and practice in thinking geographically

1. Introduction to theories and practice in thinking geographically / Erin Hogan Fouberg and Janet Stuhrenberg Smith

2. Thinking geographically / Janet Stuhrenberg Smith

3. Learning geographic concepts / Erin Hogan Fouberg

4. Learning, visualizing, and thinking through maps / Janet Stuhrenberg Smith

5. Personalizing geographic knowledge through fieldwork / Erin Hogan Fouberg

6. Plasticity and change: lifelong geographic learning / Erin Hogan Fouberg

Part II. Exercises in geographic thinking

7. Introduction to exercises to promote geographic thinking and learning / Janet Stuhrenberg Smith and Erin Hogan Fouberg

8. Engaging group-based exercises / Larianne Collins, Erin Hogan Fouberg, Jody Smothers-Marcello, Jamie L. Strickland, Caitlin Finlayson, Sunita George, Amanda Rees, and Janet Stuhrenberg Smith

9. Powerful field-based and place-based exercises / Raymond Greene, Jacqueline L. Waite, William G. Moseley, Matthew R. Cook, and Alex Oberle

10. Integrative project-based exercises / Thomas R. Craig, Leslie McLees, and Ronald V. Kalafsky

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781800885202 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restircted for use by site license.