Teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences / edited by Derek France (Division of Humanities, Cultures and Environment, University of Chester), Lesley Batty (School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham), and Dan Swanton (School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, UK).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

France, Derek, editor.

Batty, Lesley, editor.

Swanton, Dan, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar guides to teaching

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fieldwork (Educational method).

Geography--Study and teaching.

Geography.

Earth sciences--Study and teaching.

Earth sciences.

Environmental sciences--Study and teaching.

Environmental sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (418 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"This book provides invaluable practical guidance for teaching and learning through fieldwork in higher education. Featuring contributions from a diverse range of experienced field educators, it delves into the challenges and opportunities of teaching beyond the classroom across geography, earth and environmental sciences. Organised into three thematic parts, the book covers ethical and responsible fieldwork, approaches to defining and redefining the field, and relevant skills and competencies. Chapters discuss strategies for making learning accessible, facing uncertainty, and transforming fieldwork using digital tools, supplemented by themed vignettes which provide examples and resources for teaching. The book documents the many innovative ways in which educators are responding to the changing contexts of fieldwork and concludes by presenting an insightful audit tool that readers can use to reflect on, review and enhance their field teaching. Interdisciplinary in scope, this is a vital read for instructors in geography, earth sciences, environmental science and archaeology as well as other courses with a fieldwork component. Its theoretical and practical insights are also beneficial to students and researchers interested in education, teaching methods, outdoor education and future skills development"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction to teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences / Derek France, Lesley Batty and Dan Swanton

Vignette 1.1: Students' everyday life as fieldwork - learning emotional geographies in the classroom and beyond / Matej Blazek

Vignette 1.2: Through the window - embedding micro-fieldwork activity into classroom teaching / Peter G. Knight

Vignette 1.3: Fieldwork bingo cards / Kjersti Daae and Mirjam S. Glessmer

2. Climate hypocrisy, sustainability and undergraduate fieldtrips / Elizabeth R. Hurrell, Adrian Gonzalez and Daryl Stump

Vignette 2.1: Sustainable travel for fieldwork / Jane Bevan, Tamara Hunt and Lucas Trawicki

Vignette 2.2: Growing local sustainable food and community / Eifiona Thomas Lane and Rebecca Jones

Vignette 2.3: Lower carbon week-long fieldtrips / Aled Singleton, Keith Halfacree, Angharad Closs and Stephens

3. Ethics in fieldwork teaching / Julia Cooke, Matthew W. Bulbert, Eleanor Drinkwater and Zoë M. Simmons

Vignette 3.1: Developing a care-full praxis of 'access is love' in approaching and practising fieldwork / Sam Staddon and Clare Barnes

Vignette 3.2: Decolonising geography fieldwork - commemorative landscapes in western australia / 4. Who really matters? Methods for making fieldwork accessible and inclusive / Trevor Collins and Sarah Davies

Vignette 4.1: Inclusivity in student fieldtrips / Christine Barnes, Kevin Lougheed and Daniel Schillereff

Vignette 4.2: Conquering the mountain - the practicalities of making in-person fieldwork accessible / Katherine Dobbie and Jennifer Pike

Vignette 4.3: Enabling remote activity - a responsive system for live linking students to fieldwork / Sarah Davies and Trevor Collins

Vignette 4.4: An inclusive, accessible investigation based on the use of video resources / Janet Haresnape, Hannah Gauci and Vicky Taylor

Vignette 4.5: Hybrid fieldwork approaches - the independent study of 'place' in teaching and learning / Fiona Williams and Sonja Rewhorn

Vignette 4.6: Geoscience in pixels - a creative approach to more inclusive fieldwork / Ed Thomas, Anna McGairy, Manlin Zhang, Frankie Butler and Rosa Francesca

Vignette 4.7: Distance teaching field skills without access to the internet - a second-year human geography module

Vignette 4.8: City parks as venues for accessible and inclusive open university environment field days / Jennie Neve Bellamy and Yoseph Araya

5. Supporting students in the field / Julie Peacock, Liam Taylor and C. Scott Watson

Vignette 5.1: Foregrounding field-based student welfare and community - a framework for developing collaborative residential field courses / Hannah Mathers

6. Research in the field and professional practice / Brian Whalley, Derek France and Sonja Rewhorn

Vignette 6.1: 'drifting' the city - familiarising learners with the field site through group-led, randomised walking / Edward Wigley

Vignette 6.2: Exploring in/accessibility of familiar urban environments using qualitative and immersive methods / Faith and Tucker

Vignette 6.3: Undergraduate expedition fieldwork to south central norway / Jane Bevan and Derek France

Vignette 6.4: Experiential learning during international fieldwork in barcelona / Alan Marvell and David Simm

Vignette 6.5: Using interactive maps and dashboards to develop students' sense of place before, during and after human geography fieldwork / David Morgan and Charlotte Foster

Vignette 6.6: Participation of undergraduate students as field assistants for postgraduate fieldwork / Edward G. McGowan and Matthew Brown

7. Enhancing and transforming fieldwork using digital tools / Lesley Batty, Kristofer Chan and Derek France

Vignette 7.1: Hyperlocal fieldwork - connecting users to a local or bringing together many locals / Addy Pope and Derek France

Vignette 7.2: Opportunities offered by drones, 360 degrees scanning and extended reality (virtual and augmented reality) to enhance fieldwork experience / Servel Miller

Vignette 7.3: Using esri's 360 vr for developing learning opportunities and accessibility on field courses / Damien Mansell

Vignette 7.4: Digital fieldtrips - crafting environmental history narratives with storymapjs / Paul Munro

Vignette 7.5: Student co-creation of virtual fieldtrips / Simon M. Hutchinson and Amy L. Evans

Vignette 7.6: Project millport - creating a virtual fieldtrip in minecraft / Richard Fitzpatrick

8. Citizen science and community-based fieldwork / Alice Mauchline and Ian Thornhill

Vignette 8.1: Volunteering as fieldwork - 'i felt as though i was doing something that actually was beneficial to the environment rather than just learning how to help theoretically' / Dominic Charles Henri

Vignette 8.2: Participatory action research in malawi / Alan Dixon

Vignette 8.3: Arcgis survey123 / Kristofer Chan

9. Navigating success: Groupwork strategies in field environments / Liz Hamilton

Vignette 9.1: Students taking ownership in a jigsaw approach to fieldwork / Kjersti Daae, Hans Christian Steen-Larsen and Mirjam S. Glessmer

Vignette 9.2: Groupwork in an immersive virtual fieldtrip setting / Jenny Shepperson and Sarah Zylinski

Vignette 9.3: Learning environmental science in the uk using mobile-device-captured current data by malawian macadamia nut farmers / Yoseph Araya, Jennie Neve Bellamy, Andrew Emmott, Will Rawes and Emmanuel Zuza

Vignette 9.4: Site surveying for contaminated land assessment / Lucy Crockford

Vignette 9.5: Using digital field notebooks (dfn) for collaborative field notes / Janine Maddison, Richard Bevan and Sara Marsham

Vignette 9.6: Reconstructing natural and anthropogenic environmental change / Graham Wilson and Derek France

10. Project-led fieldwork / Phil Jones and Rhiannon Blake

Vignette 10.1: Challenging fieldwork with problem-based learning / Adrian Chappell, Pan He and David MacLeod

Vignette 10.2: Project-based field teaching - blending desktop research with first-hand encounters / Niall Majury and Conor Graham

11. Assessment and fieldwork / Dan Swanton

Vignette 11.1: Landscape character assessment - working above the ecosystem level / Bethan Wood

Vignette 11.2: Volcanic hazard and emergency management in the bay of naples / Servel Miller, Martin Degg, Namrata Bhattacharya-Mis and Katharine Welsh

Vignette 11.3: Building reflection for research design learning and research skill development / Katie Orchel and Geoff Main

12. Field learning and employability in geography, earth, and environmental sciences / Jacqueline Dohaney and Alison Stokes

Vignette 12.1: Using scaffolding to deliver professional field skills to tackle the graduate ecological skills gap / Sarah L. Taylor

Vignette 12.2: Fieldwork case studies - a model for the development of essential employability skills in a fieldwork setting / Laura Grange and Martyn Kurr

Vignette 12.3: Live fieldwork broadcast - a student placement / Janine Maddison, Leah Ada Constantinou, Ellen Fletcher, Callum Turner, Richard Bevan and Sara Marsham

Vignette 12.4: From the field to a career - building skills for employability / Addy Pope, Dave Morgan and Damien Mansell

Vignette 12.5: Working with industry for grand challenge studentled fieldwork learning experience / Rupert Perkins and Sophie Watson

13. Conclusions and recommendations for teaching fieldwork in geography, earth and environmental sciences / Derek France, Lesley Batty and Dan Swanton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035322398 (e-book)

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