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School geography: what interests students, what interests teacher?
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- المؤلفون: Kidman, Gillian1
- المصدر:
International Research in Geographical & Environmental Education. Nov2018, Vol. 27 Issue 4, p311-325. 15p.
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- نبذة مختصرة :
There is evidence indicating that students are rarely asked about what they want to learn, but when they are asked, the students readily identify topics of personal relevance with a hands-on component. They want topics that are curiosity-based and not knowledge based. This paper draws on data that gave voice to 199 students studying geography and their teachers. A short survey explored students' interest in a variety of topics commonly found in geography curriculum documents. Interviews were used to increase reliability and validity. The analysis of the survey followed a Whole Group Mean Score and allowed for the generation of a ranked order of topics from which zones of High Interest, Low Interest, and Ambivalence were determined. The central issue that this paper addresses is that there is a misalignment in the topics that students find of interest to learn about, and those that their teachers find of interest to teach about. It is postulated that a better fit between curriculum and students' interests could lead to improved cognitive and affective geographical learning outcomes, as well as an increase in geography enrolments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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