[PDF] Geographical Knowledge Construction And Production In Advanced Placement Human Geography Classrooms eBook

Author : Archie K. Deen
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,69 MB
Release : 2015-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1627340432

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Geographical Knowledge Construction and Production: Teacher and Student Perspectives is a readable and illuminating account of three high school classrooms in suburban Atlanta, Georgia. It challenges the narrow focus of the Advanced Placement (AP) programme as a tool for admission into colleges and universities in the United States. The research provides insight into the College Board's AP programme and argues for teaching and learning that is transformative and geared toward equipping students with the skills and knowledge necessary to confront the challenges of the 21st century. In particular, it advocates for geographic education that is anchored in the structure of the subject, teasing wherever possible, the contradictions and tensions embedded in the complexities of facts relating to people and places. This book is essential reading for professors and students of education, teachers and students of AP courses, parents, administrators, and state and federal agencies vested in the AP programme.

Author : Archie Kwame Deen
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 2012
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In the U.S., educators and policy-makers (both federal and state) view the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) programme as a measure of educational excellence. State and federal subsidies and the use of AP examinations scores as an admissions 'tool' by U.S. universities have aided the programme's growth. However, growing scepticism and questions regarding the 'integrity' of the programme, suggest that much of the 'AP experience' maybe superficial, lacking in depth and scope. In Advanced Placement Human Geography (APHG), teaching and learning 'covers' definitions of terms, the vocabulary of the topics and case studies. My research focuses on a portrayal of APHG and in particular attempts to understand the knowledge constructed and produced by the teachers and students. Through this study, teaching and learning in three APHG classrooms are revealed. It sheds light on the experiences of three teachers and their students in their contextual situations. The study addresses the research questions: what and how is knowledge constructed and produced in APHG lessons? The data, obtained using qualitative-interpretive approaches, is based on interviews, lesson observations, video recorded lessons, questionnaire completion and journal entries. The data strongly suggest that a single textbook defines the scope and limits of geographical knowledge transacted for much of the APHG experience. Additionally, the data suggest that the textbook supersedes the experiential knowledge of the students and the impact of the teachers, who also rely heavily on the authorised knowledge of the textbook. My research data, interpreted through the 'lens' of critical pedagogy, re-visits the debate on power and knowledge. My study takes a fresh look at the authentic classroom experience and provides new and deeper understanding of APHG.

Author : Todd W. Kenreich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 113619651X

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The rise of critical discourses in the discipline of geography has opened up new avenues for social justice. Geography and Social Justice in the Classroom brings together contemporary research in geography and fresh thinking about geography’s place in the social studies curriculum. The book’s main purposes are to introduce teachers and teacher educators to new research in geography, and to provide theoretical and practical examples of geography in the curriculum. The book begins with the premise that power and inequality often have spatial landscapes. With the tools and concepts of geography, students can develop a critical geographic literacy to explore the spatial expressions of power in their lives, communities, and the wider world. The first half of the book introduces new research in the field of geography on diverse topics including the social construction of maps as instruments of power and authority. The second half of the book turns the readers’ attention to geography in the P-12 classroom, and it highlights how geography can enable teachers and students to explore issues of power and social justice in the classroom. Through critical geographic literacy, educators can boldly position themselves and their students as advocates for a more just world.

Author : Erin Hogan Fouberg
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1800885202

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This timely book examines advances in teaching and learning at undergraduate level from the disciplines of geography education, neuroscience and learning science. Connecting these disciplines, the chapters integrate research on how students learn and explain how to teach students to think geographically and develop a deeper understanding of their world.