Impacts of Increased Student Career Orientation on American College Geography Programmes

Zhou, Yu; Smith, Bruce W.; Spinelli, Joseph G.

doi:10.1080/03098269985434

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“…Many students work part time and pay directly for their education. The research and anecdotal evidence tells us that for many students desired future job prospects provide their motivation to be at university, and certainly many need to be acculturated to study in higher education (Zhou et al, 1999). Moreover, new, more practice-based disciplines, such as tourism and business studies, are rising in prominence.…”

Section: Teaching-research Relationships In a Mass Higher Education Smentioning

confidence: 97%

The Relationship between Teaching and Research: Where does geography stand and deliver?

Jenkins¹

2000

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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Section: Teaching-research Relationships In a Mass Higher Education Smentioning

confidence: 97%

The Relationship between Teaching and Research: Where does geography stand and deliver?

Jenkins¹

2000

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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“…First, growing numbers of university and postgraduate students are concerned that their education provide some professional training that is marketable outside academe (Zhou et al, 1999), and training for professional development work is attractive to many students. In order to meet this growing demand, it is important that development studies education cover both theoretical and practical applications.…”

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Teaching Postgraduate Development Studies: Possibilities within geography

Silvey¹

2002

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

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This article outlines theoretical insights generated at the crossroads of geography and development studies, and elaborates their implications for postgraduate education. Re ecting on curriculum design and teaching experiences at one university (the University of Colorado, Boulder), the analysis focuses on the strengths of geography as a disciplinary home for postgraduate training in development studies. To this end, and based on faculty and student projects, it examines the relevance of geographic debates around space, place and scale for understanding speci c development questions. While most postgraduate education in development geography already takes account of these themes, this article aims to make explicit the intellectual rationale behind such a focus, and to provide speci c substantive strategies relevant to putting geography at the centre of postgraduate development studies education.

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“…The number of the programs, which were offering GIS lessons at the US and Canadian universities in the beginning of 1980s were approximately 10. By the end of the 1990s, this number exceeded 2000 [3] . GIS has now become an integral part of geography departments in most universities in the USA, Canada and some European countries, with some offering specific degrees in GIS or Geographic Information Science at the undergraduate, masters and doctoral level.…”

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Evaluating the Implementation and Effectiveness of GIS-Based Application in Secondary School Geography Lessons

Demırcı¹

2008

American J. of Applied Sciences

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Abstract:The purpose of the study was to investigate the barriers preventing the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in secondary school geography lessons and to determine its effectiveness on students' success. A workshop focusing on ways to implement GIS-based application in the classroom for 14 teachers from nine high schools was conducted in 2006. The teachers were given GIS software, digital data for an application, and the necessary written documents describing the application. Due to various obstacles, only two teachers at two schools out of 14 implemented the application successfully. The study revealed that the use of GIS increased the students' success on geography lessons by 38% at the first school and by 51% at the second one. The success rate of the students in this study substantiates the need for GIS to be better incorporated into the Geography curriculum in the secondary school level in developing countries.

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Impacts of Increased Student Career Orientation on American College Geography Programmes

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

The Relationship between Teaching and Research: Where does geography stand and deliver?

The Relationship between Teaching and Research: Where does geography stand and deliver?

Teaching Postgraduate Development Studies: Possibilities within geography

Evaluating the Implementation and Effectiveness of GIS-Based Application in Secondary School Geography Lessons

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