Pub Date : 2022-04-11DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2022.2065667
S. Praskievicz
ABSTRACT Experiential learning is recognized as a high-impact educational practice. Fieldwork is an important component of the geographic tradition. When implemented using an inquiry-based approach, fieldwork can be a highly effective form of experiential education. However, many geography instructors are dissuaded from implementing inquiry-based fieldwork because of logistical challenges. Here, a modular, semester-long fieldwork design is presented, involving inquiry-based research on local streams. This framework has been successfully implemented twice in undergraduate classes. A total of 37 undergraduate students did physical habitat assessments and water-quality monitoring on urban streams in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. Quantitative and qualitative anonymous student evaluations and student work products provide preliminary support for the approach’s effectiveness in enhancing student learning. The practical advantages of the presented fieldwork design are that it is less costly in time and money than fully field-based courses, it breaks up a large class into more manageable group sizes, and it alleviates some of the common concerns about accessibility, equity, and risk management. While still needing to be systematically assessed, the pedagogical benefits potentially include development of critical thinking, problem-solving, communication, interpersonal, and affective skills.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2022.2038101
Janet Banfield, Sam Hampton, M. Zurek
It is nearly 50 years since David Harvey (1974) famously asked “what kind of geography for what kind of public policy?” (p. 18). We seek to reopen this debate following developments since then which constrain the discipline’s current potential to engage with the practical doing of policy. We suggest that definitional, institutional and structural arrangements are preventing the policy turn from materialising, compounded by the “impact agenda” and university research assessment exercises, which obstruct practical policy work and overlook the potential for generating impact through curricula. Recognising a growing sense of imperative to act among undergraduate students, we prioritise students as our first public (Ward, 2006) to develop a more pedagogically inclined perspective on the policy debate, validating students’ aspirations as a pedagogical driver within a broader push towards reconfiguring geographical policy work.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-13DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2022.2045572
Zsuzsa M. Császár, I. Tarrósy, G. Dobos, Janos Varjas, Levente Alpek
ABSTRACT This article analyses the economic impact of inbound student mobility in Hungary. The research is based on an innovative approach not only showing the geoeconomic impact based on expenditures of the different groups of incoming students (Erasmus+, degree mobility of self-funded or scholarship holder students), but also links the data to specific sectors of the national and local economies. Thus, the paper reveals that international student mobility affects not only the internationalization of the higher education institutions or even the entire higher education sector, but also the wider macro environment, carrying geopolitical considerations. Based on the findings, a new aspect or “side effect” of the global and/or governmental “soft power” initiatives (e.g. Erasmus+, Belt and Road Initiative, Stipendium Hungaricum) can be identified in economic development. With the Hungarian case, the article intends to contribute to a better understanding of the changing geopolitics of higher education in the twenty-first century.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2022.2045573
P. Wright, M. Whitworth, A. Tibaldi, F. Bonali, P. Nomikou, Varvara Antoniou, F. Vitello, U. Becciani, M. Krokos, B. van Wyk de Vries
ABSTRACT At a time when traditional fieldwork is coming under pressure, be it from shrinking budgets, reducing carbon footprints, increased concerns for personal safety or the desire to make field skills accessible to all, how do we ensure that the key skills of observation, data collection and landscape analysis can still be developed in our students? This paper evaluates the experiences of students using immersive virtual reality (VR) to interrogate highly accurate georeferenced landscape models, made from data collected by Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, through the medium of Q methodology. It finds that there appears to be an association between prior engagement and expertise with IT and gaming technologies, such that those who declare some degree of prowess engage with and embrace the opportunities of using VR. This suggests that to allow more students to adopt positive approaches to learning in this manner, educators need to worry less about ever complex and realistic models, and invest more into positive prior experiences of using technology. Moreover, an important voice in the narrative around the physical nature of “being in the field” and social interaction with peers and tutors questions an approach that is still a relatively solitary experience.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-09DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2022.2045575
Hyerim Yoon, Margot Mecca
ABSTRACT The article suggests an alternative teaching material to adapt to the current Covid-19 pandemic that impedes outdoor activities such as fieldwork or external visits in the university. The authors explore web documentary (hereinafter webdoc) as an option for asynchronous online teaching methods, an alternative to enable learning experiences. The result presents the students’ response to a survey with close- and open-ended questions based on their experience of two different webdocs (Montelab and Trozos Urbanos). The results demonstrate great potential for webdocs in online teaching due to game element, emotional engagement and entertainment. Students felt empowered by the interactiveness of the webdoc which led to an overall positive evaluation. Moreover, the experience was well received when it was in line with course materials with potential to communicate geographical knowledge around interdisciplinary urban challenges. Therefore, teachers should dedicate efforts for identifying appropriate webdocs to provide students with beneficial geographical learning experience that fits the course aim. On the other hand, minor negative feedback was observed based on personal interest and the general cyber fatigue from the pandemic. We suggest teachers to explore webdocs based on their needs and conclude by providing a list of recommendations and useful references.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2022.2041571
Yanan Li, S. Krause, Aidan K. McLendon, Injeong Jo
ABSTRACT Field-based education is interactive, hands-on, and based on real world experience and methodology, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has faced special challenges. As many institutions may struggle to maintain this vital component of geographic education, this resource paper aims to illustrate the impacts of the pandemic and provide some strategies to overcome the challenges from the experience of teaching a field methods course at a university in Texas. While many studies have focused on evaluating field instruction amidst the pandemic, our commentary focuses on both a ground-based perception from instructors and students and a comparison before and after the outbreak of the pandemic. We found that virtual attendance is disadvantageous to teaching and learning, and transferable skills like teamwork and communication are compromised due to a reduction in social interaction. However, intrapersonal skills such as observation, note-taking, and organization were better received in students’ learning. Students expressed minimal safety concerns about the on-campus fieldwork given the conformity to the safety and health protocols. Based on the existing literature and our experience, we conclude with four generalized recommendations to share with colleagues in a similar situation, hoping to help retain the critical role of field-based education even under disruption.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2022.2045577
R. Fielding
ABSTRACT Garrett Hardin’s The Tragedy of the Commons is a classic piece of academic literature in geography and cognate fields. Applying theories of embodied cognition and performance pedagogies, this paper presents a classroom-based activity that can be used to teach the concepts of The Tragedy of the Commons in a way that will likely intersect with students’ own lived experiences more meaningfully than Hardin’s central example of a group of livestock owners making use of a shared field for grazing. The activity involves a dialogue among five student volunteer actors that iteratively portrays a group of friends trying to negotiate their own advantages alongside a sense of equity in the context of dividing the cost of a shared meal. During and after the performance, key opportunities are presented for the instructor to lead a discussion about Hardin’s “tragedy” as well as the solutions he proposes by which it might be overcome. The model of scripted performance plus impromptu discussion used here can be applied to the teaching of other complex topics in the geography classroom.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2022.2045574
A. Eisenschitz
ABSTRACT The notion of the common good underlies much policy making in geography. There are two reasons for evaluating geography’s impact on the common good for the university curriculum. First, by working within the various theoretical paradigms that have influenced policy, students will learn to argue from different perspectives such as social democracy or neo-liberalism. Second, asking them to assess the effectiveness of policies in meeting the common good, produces employable graduates with skills in critical thinking and problem solving. This is especially true because the concept is often not fully developed and varies with each perspective. Initially students undertake a case study of an area that allows them to follow the logic of intervention during all its historical twists and turns. A further stage sees students arguing not just within but between different theoretical frameworks, comparing the various approaches in order to discover the most appropriate one for understanding the processes in the locality and for pursuing the common good. In the final stage students investigate the politics of knowledge, again using data from the same locality, looking at how the knowledge used in geographic policy making becomes an agent of socio-economic change through being absorbed by society’s dominant paradigm.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2022.2041570
M. Blazek, A. Stenning
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Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2022.2045576
Allie Copeland, S. Tate
ABSTRACT Debates about how best to support students’ transition from school to university have re-emerged periodically since at least the 1970s. This paper focuses upon one aspect of this transition: how to develop the quantitative skills students acquire at school throughout the first year of their degree. We report on an attempt to inject pedagogic innovation into the teaching of quantitative methods to first-year geography undergraduates at a large Russell Group university in the UK. More specifically, we report on moving to a pedagogic approach of student-centred, inquiry-based learning, which uses quantitative methods to investigate the issue of air pollution. We explore whether “statistical anxiety” is still a common experience of undergraduate geographers and the extent to which pedagogical innovation can help to alleviate this. Although the focus is on UK Geography, the paper has wider relevance to anywhere geographical research methods are taught.
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