School Geography

Activity-based Learning in Secondary School Geography Lessons in Turkey: A Study from Geography Teachers’ Perspective

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the type and frequency of in-and out-of-school activities implemented in secondary school geography lessons in Turkey. A questionnaire survey was prepared and distributed to 150 geography teachers who participated in an in-service education organized by the Ministry of National Education in 2009. Eighty-one teachers responded to the twenty-four questio...

A Law and Geography Perspective on the New Haven School

Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks

The Pennsylvania State University The Graduate School Department of Geography DESIGN FOR SYNTHESIS IN GEOVISUALIZATION A Dissertation in Geography by

Visually-enabled analysis of geographic information with interactive geovisualization tools is increasingly common in domains like disease surveillance, crisis management, and intelligence analysis. As geovisualization tools evolve to support more sophisticated analytical capabilities, the results that emerge from these systems are becoming more abundant and intricate. Current tools provide bas...

Local Knowledge in Development ( Geography ) Geography

The use of local knowledge in and for development is a relatively recent phenomenon, entering the realm of development theory and practice from the mid 1970s, yet it has become a key part of the rhetoric and practice of development agencies and academic research. The conceptual and historical background to local knowledge in development, including its roots of ‘Western’ engagement with ‘other’ ...