Teaching Geography's four traditions with Poetry

Donaldson, Daniel P.

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“…The poem can in these instances function as a translator that adapts scientific concepts and notions that are hard for us to grasp into a language where we understand it on a more intuitive or emotional level, for example by means of metaphors, symbols and other types of visualizations. Daniel P. Donaldson (2001), whose research focuses on geographic education, discusses how poetry can add to the understanding of a natural phenomenon:…”

Section: Transmediation Of Content As Subjective Truthfulnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Truth Written in Verse: Transmediations of Scientific Discourse in Swedish Ecopoetry

Tornborg¹

2020

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The article discusses transmediation of truth claims and truthfulness in ecopoetry and takes as example the poetry collection Permafrostens avtagande (The Declining of the Permafrost, 2007) by Swedish poet Åsa Maria Kraft. The aim of the article is twofold: First, to study how transmediation of scientific source material (which in this context includes all kinds of media that represent a scientific content in a formal matter: newspaper articles, scientific reports, documentaries etc.) affects the perceived and real truthfulness of a poem. Second, to discuss what ecopoetry gains -both aesthetically and in its perceived truthfulness and urgency -by transmediating content and/or form from scientific source media.Truth claims are not identical with truthfulness. Subjective truth claims in literature have to do with conveying a sense of sincerity and authenticity: we believe that the represented thoughts and emotions have actually been experienced. As I have stated elsewhere (Tornborg 2020), I regard objective truth claims in literature as being either something that we "by means of experience and habit" ascribe to the text or "claims made in the text, in various ways, implicit or explicit, of being truthful about external conditions" (9). A media product can transmediate a specific type of scientific jargon without transmediating a scientific content, and thus create what Gunn Enli (2015) calls "authenticity illusions" (1), but not real truthfulness. Thus, a text can fool us, and since no text can guarantee its own truthfulness, I believe that the only way to prove it is to include external references that in turn can be validated. This line of thought should be put in relation to the Heideggerian way of regarding poetic truth: as a kind of secular revelation (Roger Scruton 2015, 149). In this tradition of thinking, poetic truth is something different compared to what we usually mean by the word. Instead it denotes a deeper understanding of the essence of things.Transmediations of representations of scientific knowledge affect poetry both aesthetically and in terms or truthfulness. The article uses intermedial theory to disentangle the media relations in play in Kraft's book, as well as to shed light over the issue of real truthfulness in poetry, with the purpose of better understanding the ecopoetic usage of science.

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Section: Transmediation Of Content As Subjective Truthfulnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Truth Written in Verse: Transmediations of Scientific Discourse in Swedish Ecopoetry

Tornborg¹

2020

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“…Bununla birlikte Pattison'ın "dört geleneği", ilk yayınlandığı 1964 yılından sonra birkaç coğrafyacı tarafından tekrar gözden geçirilmiş (Taaffe, 1974;Robinson, 1976); birçok çalışmaya yıllar boyunca çeşitli şekillerde konu olmuş (örn. Blaut, 1979;Goodchild ve Janelle, 1988;Warf, 1997;Sluyter ve ark., 2006;Baerwald, 2010); son yıllarda bazı coğrafyacılar tarafından kritik şekilde tartışılmış (Harvey, 2009;Murphy, 2014) ve hatta dört gelenek, Mayer (1990) tarafından sağlık coğrafyasında farklı düşünsel geleneklerin varlığını ortaya koymada, Taaffe ve Gauthier (1994) tarafından ulaşım coğrafyasının gelişiminde gelenekleri ayırt etmede, Datel (2000) tarafından AAG (Amerikan Coğrafyacılar Derneği) başkanları tarafından yapılan başkanlık konuşmalarının içerik analizinin değerlendirilmesinde ve Donaldson (2001) tarafından coğrafya eğitiminde şiirlerdeki mekansal kavramların gösteriminde analitik bir çerçeve olarak kullanılmıştır. Buna rağmen, bu kurgu (dört gelenek kavramsallaştırması), ne Batı coğrafyasında ne de Türkiye'de işlemselleştirilip ampirik düzeyde analiz edilmiştir.…”

Section: şEkil 1: Coğrafyanın Dört Geleneğinin Bu çAlışmadaki İşlemselleştirilişiunclassified

Türk Coğrafyaciliğinda Dört Gelenek: Ampi̇ri̇k Bi̇r Anali̇z

Bekaroğlu¹,

Yavan²

2018

Marmara Coğrafya Dergisi

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ÖzetBu çalışmada, ilk defa Amerikan coğrafyacı William Pattison tarafından 1964 yılında kavramsal çerçevesi çizilen coğrafyanın dört geleneği, Türk coğrafyacılığının tarihsel gelişiminin daha iyi bir anlayışının elde edilmesi amacıyla disiplin özelinde incelenmiştir. Bu amaçla, Türk coğrafyacıları tarafından 1943-2016 yılları arasında üretilen doktora tezleri ait oldukları coğrafi geleneğe göre sınıflandırılarak analiz edilmiştir. Çalışmanın bulguları, tüm periyot dikkate alındığında, en baskın pratiğin bölgesel geleneğe ait olduğunu; bunu yerbilimi geleneği ile mekansal geleneğin izlediğini ortaya koymaktadır. Türk coğrafyacılığında tarihsel olarak en zayıf pratik ise insan-çevre geleneğine aittir. Dört geleneğin Türk coğrafyacılığındaki örüntüsü, 1943-1989 yılları arasında yerbilimi geleneğinin; 1990-2016 yılları arasında ise bölgesel geleneğin baskınlığıyla karakterize olmaktadır. Coğrafi geleneklerin Türk coğrafyacılığı özelindeki bu kompozisyonu, 1990 öncesi dönemdeki yerbilimi geleneğinin ve merkez üniversitelerin egemenliğinin, 1990 sonrasında bölgesel gelenek ve çevre üniversitelerin egemenliğiyle yer değiştirdiğini; bu bakımdan, Türk coğrafyacılığının güncel kompozisyonunun geleneksel coğrafya pratikleri ile çağdaş coğrafya pratiklerinin birlikte, yan yana yaşadığı bir örüntüyle karakterize olduğunu göstermektedir. AbstractIn this study, the four traditions of geography whose conceptual framework was for the first time drawn by William Pattison in 1964, empirically analyzed in the context of modern Turkish geography to have a better understanding of development of the discipline in Turkey. For this purpose, Ph.D. thesis written by geographers from 1943 to 2016 have been classified and then analyzed according to the traditions they belong to. Results show that the area studies (regional) tradition constitutes the most dominant form of disciplinary practice, followed by the earth-science and the spatial traditions. The man-land tradition is characterized by the weakest practice in Turkish geography historically. However, such a pattern shows periodical changes. While in the first period between 1943-1989 the earth-science tradition was the leading one, in the second period between 1990-2016 the area studies (regional) tradition became the dominant form of scientific practice in the discipline. This pattern reveals that the dominance of the earth-science tradition and the leading universities in the pre-1990 period of Turkish geography were replaced by the dominance of the regional tradition and peripheral universities after 1990s. In this respect, the study concludes that the contemporary composition of Turkish geography is characterized by a pattern in which traditional geographical practices and contemporary geographical practices have a sort of symbiosis.

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“…In math, poetry helps students learn about percentages, fractions, and spatial reasoning (McGee, ). In social studies, it helps students learn concepts in American history (Friese & Nixon, ), spatial patterns and processes, and the relationship between time and space in geography (Donaldson, ). This teaching tip recognizes that poetry is not typically a form used by scientists, mathematicians, and social scientists to convey professional information.…”

Section: Poetry In Content Area Literacymentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing Etheree Poems Across the Curriculum

Bintz¹

2016

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Many teachers make reading and writing poetry an important part of the school day. They use different instructional strategies that invite students to write poetry in meaningful, engaging, and creative ways. This article describes an instructional strategy that invites students to write etheree poetry across the curriculum. It discusses benefits of using poetry in content area literacy and provides background on etheree poetry. Next, it describes an instructional lesson using etheree poetry and shares samples of poetry that resulted from the lesson. It ends with reflections and implications.

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Teaching Geography's four traditions with Poetry

Cited by 15 publications

References 19 publications

Truth Written in Verse: Transmediations of Scientific Discourse in Swedish Ecopoetry

Truth Written in Verse: Transmediations of Scientific Discourse in Swedish Ecopoetry

Türk Coğrafyaciliğinda Dört Gelenek: Ampi̇ri̇k Bi̇r Anali̇z

Writing Etheree Poems Across the Curriculum

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