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Strengthening Geographic
Content in the Classroom
Study Abroad Article
Study Abroad
‱ Fewer than 10 percent of college students study
overseas during undergraduate years.
‱ Three times as many foreigners study in America as the
other way around.
‱ One of the aims of higher education is to broaden
perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay
in a really different country, like Bangladesh or
Senegal?
‱ Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the
complex prism of suspicion through which the United
States is often viewed. If more Americans had overseas
experience, our foreign policy might be wiser.
Study Geography
‱ Fewer than 10 percent of college students study
GEOGRAPHY during undergraduate years.
‱ Three times as many foreigners study GEOGRAPHY
than Americans.
‱ One of the aims of higher education is to broaden
perspectives, and what better way than by studying
GEOGRAPHY?
‱ Studying GEOGRAPHY also leaves one more aware of
the complex prism of suspicion through which the
United States is often viewed. If more Americans had
GEOGRAPHIC EXPERTISE, our foreign policy might be
wiser.
The truth
if you always lived in San Diego
What is this item called?
Truths can be spatially contingent
‱ How far from the here do you live?
‱ What time is it?
Truths can be scale-dependent
‱ Where are you from?
‱ Is overpopulation a problem in North
America?
GEOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION
World
Realms
Regions
Neighborhoods
Globalization has made the world ‘flat’
‱ Geography has been conquered
‱ Place is increasingly less relevant
Place still matters
Distance and Time
Global News Demands Geographic Context
http://www.scoop.it/t/geography-education/?tag=Syria
Diverse cultural understanding needed
‱ Army training
Understanding
Conflicts
devolution
Borders Supranationalism
What Does Good Geography
Teaching Look Like?
Answering the Big Questions in Geography
Geography education is not

How can competent teachers help
students understand a complex
interconnected world?
Provide geographic information
Teach geographic concepts
Use data, maps, and geospatial technology
Ask questions which encourage spatial thinking.
Geographic Literacy
1. Provide geographic information
Environmental changes require
holistic, systemic thinking
Perspective
2. Teach geographic concepts
What do these maps have in common?
3. Use data, maps, and geospatial technology
Regions are increasingly interconnected
Geography integrates Social Studies
4. Ask questions which encourage spatial thinking.
How is this a “human” landscape?
ee
Boeing 787 assembly plant in Everett, Washington
‱ Human imprint on Earth’s surface.
CULTURAL LANDSCAPE
Multiple layers on the landscape
2002 2010
20102010
3 Types of Place
Messages of cultural landscapes?
Cultural Landscape Meanings
http://www.scoop.it/t/geography-education/?tag=landscape
Cultural Landscapes
A spatial perspective is not just for geographers
spatial mapping map projections
The Global becomes Local
How can competent teachers help
students understand a complex
interconnected world?
Provide geographic information
Teach geographic concepts
Use data, maps, and geospatial technology
Ask questions which encourage spatial thinking.
Geographic Literacy

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Hinweis der Redaktion

  1. Strengthening Geographic Content in the ClassroomMany efforts to strengthen geography education focus on altering the standards at the district, state and national levels. Sustained improvement in geographic content in the classroom needs to start with teachers and pre-service teachers, where that actual teaching happens. Practical ideas for teachers to strengthen geography education in their classrooms will be presented.
  2. Truth is also dependent on scale.
  3. World has changed and geographic factors aren’t what they used to be
Truth is both spatially AND temporally contingent. But different doesn’t mean irrelevant.globalization makes place increasingly important---many think that geography is being conquered by transportation and communications technologies in this era of globalization rendering geography increasingly irrelevant as we move forward.  Nothing could be further from the truth. 
  4. global news does not make sense without geographic context
  5. appreciation for cultural diversity is critical for global business
  6. environmental changes require holistic thinking about place
  7. Geographic thinking can unite and synthesize all the social studies
  8. Regions are artificial constructs that we make to group similar places together since we can't know everything about an infinite number of places.  Far distant places are incredibly relevant to the daily interactions of many places. 
  9. The cultural is political.  The demographic is economic.  The urban and the rural are not mutually exclusive. 
  10. A Union Pacific freight train passes between windmills on January 17, 2010 near of Palm Springs, California.
  11. 3 types of Place: Absolute, Relative, and Relational
  12. Canal Burano Venice Italy Mesa Verde National Park (Cliff Palace)
  13. How can there be violence right on our doorstep? Flip it. There is violence in Northern Mexico BECAUSE it’s right on the border with the USA.