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485-331 Geography C7: Geography, Learning and Adolescents

Note: This subject qualifies as a Link Study. However, it is not necessary to take it as a Link Study.

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 8.3

Coordinator: To be advised.

Prerequisite: 16.7 credit points in Year 2 Geography subjects, or approved equivalent.

Contact: A 2-hour tutorial each week and two school visits totalling six hours.

Timetable: Second semester.

Objectives:

On completion of this subject students should be able to:

• conduct simple research projects in geography education;
• apply knowledge of issues deemed to be significant by young people to the development of a syllabus in geography which incorporates these issues;
• recognise those teaching strategies which young people find most and least acceptable in the geography classroom;
• use textbooks in a way which takes cognisance of the differing levels and abilities of young people; and
• recognise and evaluate their own learning and teaching style.

Content:

Young people's perceptions and experiences of learning through geography; implications for classroom practice. Students participate in classroom research and analyse their own and others' primary data. Topics selected from: significant issues; teaching methods; paradigms; teaching/learning styles and vocabulary acquisition.

Assessment:

One written assignment of approximately 2,500 words (100 per cent).

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