Content analysis of international research in geographical and environmental education: 18 years of academic publishing

What are the constraints to GIS usage? Selected results of a teacher survey about constraints in the school context

“…Using statistical and scientometric analysis of the journal International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, Kidman and Papadimitriou (2012; show that the growth in GIS education seems to be increasing exponentially. Similar results can be found in an analysis of German-language journals by Höhnle, Schubert, and Uphues (2012a).…”

Research on Geography Teaching and Teacher Education in Portugal

“…-151 internship reports part of the curricular unit Introduction to Professional Practice (from 2010 to 2015), published in the open repositories of seven Portuguese universities (five public and two private universities); -the study plans of the 2 nd cycles of Teaching of History and Geography taught at those universities; -the works by Kidman and Papadimitriou (2012) and Stoltman (2012).…”

“…Moreover, we noticed the increasing role of technological mediation and teaching/learning "cloud spaces" in most schools where the availability of information tends to be greater, which is a sign of change in behaviour towards adhering to the new information and communication technologies in many circles of sociability and communication, teaching and education included. Kidman and Papadimitriou (2012) Stoltman (2012) Research in Portugal (2015) Fig. 5.…”

“…In this way, we discussed the need to introduce changes in the professionalisation of Geography teachers, leading to the presentation of a new curricular structure for the 2 nd cycle of the teaching of Geography for 2015/16. This approach is based on similar studies developed by authors such as Butt (2015); Schee, Lidstone and Brooks (2014); González, Donert (2014); Schemeinck and ; William (2012); Kidman and Papadimitriou (2012); Stoltman (2012); Lidstone and Williams (2006);and Gerber (2003).…”

The end of a beginning – what it means for international research geographical and environmental education for uncertain times ahead

“…A content analysis of articles published in IRGEE up till 2009 was published in Volume 21, Issue 1, by Gillian Kidman and Fivos Papadimitriou. The findings of the content analysis of 526 papers showed that there had been more articles on geographical education than those related to environmental education (Kidman & Papadimitriou, 2012). Researchers were also becoming interested in themes on "syllabi, textbooks, curricula" and "values and attitudes" as well as topics such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and sustainability.…”