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 editors 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. These insightful exercises are designed to assist with promoting geographic thinking and learning, The editors provide a matrix that serves as an outstanding resource.
Teaching Human Geographymakes 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.
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In Teaching Human Geography: Theories and Practice in Thinking Geographically, Fouberg and Stuhrenberg Smith focus on how educators can help learners to foster a deep engagement with geographical concepts. The central tenet of the book is that geographic thinking is more than the recitation of facts, but rather a transformative approach for students to interpret the world around them. The book is structured around two main sections, the first focused on the theoretical underpinnings of geographic thinking and the second, a more practical guide of example exercises that educators can use and adapt in their own classrooms. [ ...] The structure of the book as both theoretical and practical makes this resource a welcome addition to the scholarly literature and easily accessible to the reader. While aimed at educators at the undergraduate level, the book will also be a useful reference for upper secondary teachers, providing direction for how to engage students in the process of their geographic thinking. -- Jennifer Bond, Geographical Education: The Innovative Geography Educator This extremely readable book shows geography to be the world subject. More than this, it argues that students who learn to think geographically discover a new way of seeing the world. In the context of Anthropocene, the educational potential of geography is therefore vast but is not guaranteed. This book expertly melds theoretical perspectives about learning with some brilliant examples of structured teaching and thus makes a fine contribution to the development of geography education in practice. -- David Lambert, UCL Institute of Education, UK There has arguably never been a more urgent need for young people to learn how to think geographically at a high level of proficiency. This book demonstrates the significance of geographys powerful knowledge for understanding human systems with many practical applications to support high quality geography instruction. -- Michael Solem, Texas State University, US
Contents:Foreword by Donald Zeigler xvPART I THEORIES AND PRACTICE IN THINKINGGEOGRAPHICALLY1 Introduction to theories and practice in thinkinggeographically 2Erin Hogan Fouberg and Janet Stuhrenberg Smith2 Thinking geographically 11Janet Stuhrenberg Smith3 Learning geographic concepts 39Erin Hogan Fouberg4 Learning, visualizing, and thinking through maps 58Janet Stuhrenberg Smith5 Personalizing geographic knowledge through fieldwork 86Erin Hogan Fouberg6 Plasticity and change: lifelong geographic learning 100Erin Hogan FoubergPART II EXERCISES IN GEOGRAPHIC THINKING7 Introduction to exercises to promote geographic thinkingand learning 112Janet Stuhrenberg Smith and Erin Hogan Fouberg8 Engaging group-based exercises 116Larianne Collins, Erin Hogan Fouberg, JodySmothers-Marcello, Jamie L. Strickland, Caitlin Finlayson,Sunita George, Amanda Rees, and Janet Stuhrenberg Smith9 Powerful field-based and place-based exercises 178Raymond Greene, Jacqueline L. Waite, William G. Moseley,Matthew R. Cook, and Alex Oberle10 Integrative project-based exercises 209Thomas R. Craig, Leslie McLees, and Ronald V. KalafskyIndex 229
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
