Traveling Through the Trail of Tears

Egiebor, Esohe E.; Foster, Ellen

doi:10.1080/19338341.2018.1491876

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“…We have checked all issues of The Geography Teacher and Teaching Geography from 2017 and 2018 and, in a few papers, it is pointed out that comparisons can help "reach a clear judgement" [32] (p. 10), to "understand how things may be connected" [33] (p. 67), "to gain a better insight" [34] (p. 34), or "to stimulate further reflections" [35] (p. 56). Comparing is often mentioned as a task for students, but without referring to a concrete procedure or even a method [36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55]. Thus, the aim of this article is to provide a clear definition and systematic method of comparison, which can be used as a tool in geography school education to make the full potentials of comparison usable.…”

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Comparison as a Method for Geography Education

Wilcke

Budke

2019

Education Sciences

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Comparison is an everyday process of thinking, which is also frequently used in geography lessons. However, in geography pedagogy, the term ‘comparison’ remains vague and insufficiently defined. In this paper, we will propose a clear definition of what comparison is and introduce it as a systematic method for secondary school geography education. This definition and method is the result of our theoretical–conceptual approach, according to which we have analyzed the current academic discussion about scientific comparison and converted it into a method for teaching. We argue that applying comparison as a pedagogical tool may improve students’ skills to argue, reflect, solve problems, and promote good judgement.

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