Geography in K-12 and Higher Education - Paper session
Primary Session Organizer: Dennis Edgell, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
This session will explore issues and techniques utilized in Geographic Education.
This includes enhancement of liberal arts courses and problems and prospects for general education.
Topics also include instructional experiences teaching applied geo-spatial technologies, and the mentoring of student research.
Primary Session Organizer: Dennis Edgell, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
This session will explore issues and techniques utilized in Geographic Education.
This includes enhancement of liberal arts courses and problems and prospects for general education.
Topics also include instructional experiences teaching applied geo-spatial technologies, and the mentoring of student research.
Using a blended learning approach to bridge the applied and the theoretical in teaching Geography - Roundtable discussion
Primary Session Organizer: Siobhan McPhee, University of British Columbia
Applied geography represents the dialectic relationship between theory and application (Pacione 1999, 2004). A well-informed and rigorous pedagogy to teaching and learning Geography must represent this dialectical relationship (Pacione 1999). How then can the relationship between the theoretical and the applied be challenged within the spaces of the university lecture room or lab? Can this happen in the increasingly online, blended approaches instructors are adopting, especially with the current requirements of COVID19 teaching situations? This roundtable session will focus on a critical discussion of approaches to delivering applied experiences for students. Examples from the organizers' experience and toolbox of blended and synchronous approaches will be presented to stimulate discussion. In particular we will explore how emerging media and online environments may challenge traditional spaces of learning and contribute to more applied active learning. The contention is that adopting more blended approaches to teaching Geography will enable students to make critical connections between theory and application. The objective of the roundtable session is to bring together geographers from all backgrounds of theoretical and applied approaches to have a conversation on how best to deliver formative and rigorous geographical content to students.
Primary Session Organizer: Siobhan McPhee, University of British Columbia
Applied geography represents the dialectic relationship between theory and application (Pacione 1999, 2004). A well-informed and rigorous pedagogy to teaching and learning Geography must represent this dialectical relationship (Pacione 1999). How then can the relationship between the theoretical and the applied be challenged within the spaces of the university lecture room or lab? Can this happen in the increasingly online, blended approaches instructors are adopting, especially with the current requirements of COVID19 teaching situations? This roundtable session will focus on a critical discussion of approaches to delivering applied experiences for students. Examples from the organizers' experience and toolbox of blended and synchronous approaches will be presented to stimulate discussion. In particular we will explore how emerging media and online environments may challenge traditional spaces of learning and contribute to more applied active learning. The contention is that adopting more blended approaches to teaching Geography will enable students to make critical connections between theory and application. The objective of the roundtable session is to bring together geographers from all backgrounds of theoretical and applied approaches to have a conversation on how best to deliver formative and rigorous geographical content to students.
Geography and Interdisciplinary Educational Experiences Abroad - Paper Session
Primary Session Organizer: Clayton Whitesides, Coastal Carolina University
Geography is well equipped to provide internationalized curriculum through interdisciplinary educational experiences abroad. Researching and studying abroad are germane to and established traditions of the discipline. Because study abroad is inherently interdisciplinary and disciplines across the natural and social sciences and humanities increasingly tackle contemporary challenges that transcend disciplines, potential exists for geographers to partner with departments from virtually all colleges across a given campus to provide cross-cutting, interdisciplinary experiences abroad. To be effective, however, this necessitates better communication between disciplines to highlight synergies and underscore benefits, rather than each discipline functioning in their own silos on parallel paths.
The purpose of this session is to highlight effective and successful Geography educational experiences abroad that have partnered with other disciplines.
Primary Session Organizer: Clayton Whitesides, Coastal Carolina University
Geography is well equipped to provide internationalized curriculum through interdisciplinary educational experiences abroad. Researching and studying abroad are germane to and established traditions of the discipline. Because study abroad is inherently interdisciplinary and disciplines across the natural and social sciences and humanities increasingly tackle contemporary challenges that transcend disciplines, potential exists for geographers to partner with departments from virtually all colleges across a given campus to provide cross-cutting, interdisciplinary experiences abroad. To be effective, however, this necessitates better communication between disciplines to highlight synergies and underscore benefits, rather than each discipline functioning in their own silos on parallel paths.
The purpose of this session is to highlight effective and successful Geography educational experiences abroad that have partnered with other disciplines.