Exploring Relationships between Teaching and Research in Geography Education

Slater, Frances

doi:10.1007/978-94-017-1942-1_20

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“…Slater (2003), Lidstone & Williams (2006), Genevois & Jouneau-Sion (2008) are citation that there is insufficient reference to geography education research in the development of educational policy in laws of many countries. Roberts (2000), Naish (2002), Slater (2003), Johnston & Williams (2003) emphasize that geography education research insufficiently uses in geography courses, primarily because of the negative perception of teachers. Hargreaves (1998), Roberts (2000) and Butt (2003) suggest that supposed to establish a connection between geography education research and teaching.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…According to Roberts (2010) teachers have little opportunity or time to read most of the research published in scientific journals or books. Hollowell et al (1998) and Slater (2003) point out that teachers do not use enough geography education research. Naish (2002) and Brkić -Vejmelka (2000) says that the teachers have a healthy skepticism towards geography education research.…”

Section: Introduction Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Geography Education Research in Serbia: a Teacher’s Perspective

2017

European Journal of Contemporary Education

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In all European Union countries have harmonized attitudes on the need and improving the quality geographic of education and his innovating. Modernization of geographic education is unthinkable without quality professional and personal development of teacher's geography. Renewal, modernization and supplement professional knowledge and skills acquired in framework of the initial of geographic education it is considered imperative of contemporary education. This paper analyzes the geographical education research on the example of Serbia, from the perspective of geography teachers, and makes an attempt to determine the extent to which teacher's geography use geography education research in their courses and which possible barriers prevent them use the results of geography education research in Serbian classroom environment. The results showed that 26 % of teachers reported that they subscribe to academic journals about geography education research, while 62.4 % of them said that they just follow the publications geography education research. More than 87.6 % of respondents believe that the use of geography education research improves learning, students' motivation and quality of courses, and almost half of the respondents does not think that it is time and excessive class sizes, a reason not to use geography education research in their courses. Geographic education research is a multidimensional concept and cannot be easily estimate only on the basis one study, and solutions should be sought in advocating for one multimodal approach, in which the quality of geographic education research defined through larger number of different, relevant determinants.

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Section: Introduction Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%