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{"title":"Student employability enhancement through fieldwork: purposefully integrated or a beneficial side effect?","authors":"Emma L. Peasland, Graham W. Scott, Lesley J. Morrell, Dominic C. Henri","doi":"10.1080/03098265.2023.2267459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2267459","url":null,"abstract":"Fieldwork provides opportunities for students to develop employability-enhancing transferable skills as well as technical, discipline-specific skills and disciplinary knowledge. However, the extent to which staff purposely plan transferable skills outcomes of field courses, and, therefore, whether they are communicated to students is unknown. We investigated whether staff intentionally plan transferable skills development opportunities into fieldwork by interviewing academic staff responsible for planning and leading residential field courses at a UK university. We also conducted a thematic analysis of associated module specifications and teaching materials to understand whether transferable skills were signposted to colleagues and students. Our findings show that although most staff recognise that their field courses help students to develop transferable skills, staff awareness of skills and professional development outcomes is narrowly focused on technical skills and discipline-related careers. Furthermore, those transferable skills outcomes that staff are aware of are not fully translated into module specifications and infrequently signposted to students via teaching materials. These findings suggest that transferable skills form a hidden curriculum of fieldwork. To maximise the employability benefits of fieldwork, we recommend that all skills should be signposted to students both during field course teaching and also via the associated teaching materials.","PeriodicalId":51487,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geography in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135267737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Geographies of collective responsibility: decolonising universities through place-based praxis","authors":"Adam Joseph Barker, Jenny Pickerill","doi":"10.1080/03098265.2023.2263741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2263741","url":null,"abstract":"This paper asks how can we as geographers, occupying positions of relative privilege but also beholden to institutions entangled with legacies of colonialism and ongoing colonization, find and embody our responsibilities to Indigenous people and nations and contribute to decolonization within and beyond the academy? We begin by reflecting on Doreen Massey’s (2004) theorization of geographies of responsibility and critiques of it in the intervening years. We then engage with important considerations including the politics of recognition, relational grammars of settler colonialism and Indigenous notions of relationality. To avoid the traps of recognition politics, which often foreclose the more transformative possibilities of responsibility, we propose ways of taking of decolonial responsibility in our teaching, research and professional service. While we cannot provide simple solutions to the difficult challenge of pursuing decolonization in the academy, we believe that centralizing and prioritizing relationships of responsibility to and through place in support of resurgent Indigenous nationhood is required to avoid the denuding, individualizing process of colonial recognition and superficial performative decolonisation.","PeriodicalId":51487,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geography in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135569822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond critical pedagogy of place: sensory-embodied learning through the university campus","authors":"Daniel Gutiérrez-Ujaque, Monica Montserrat Degen","doi":"10.1080/03098265.2023.2267489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2267489","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed an alarming chasm between traditional higher education pedagogies and the lived experiences of students, posing new challenges to educators worldwide . Addressing this, our study proposes a curricular paradigm shift that foregrounds sensory and embodied learning. Influenced by a Critical Pedagogy of Place framework, we conceptualize the delivery of an urban studies module as an experience-centred encounter with the campus. Our research examines the implications of incorporating course activities and teaching styles that promote sensory-embodied forms of learning and their potential to break free from the confines of the physical classrooms. Empirical evidence from our study demonstrates a remarkable 87% increase in student theoretical comprehension, heralding the transformative potential of turning university campuses into sensorial and embodied critical spaces. Such a transformative pedagogical approach critically questions the outmoded banking education model and encourages students to interrogate deep-seated social and cultural norms and practices. In pushing the boundaries of traditional pedagogy, our study suggests the need to revamp higher education learning experiences to resonate more closely with contemporary students’ lived experiences.","PeriodicalId":51487,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geography in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135994494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Let’s talk about emotional labor—some reflections from the field","authors":"Judith Keller, Colt A. Pierce","doi":"10.1080/03098265.2023.2267455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2267455","url":null,"abstract":"While methodologies on fieldwork are widely discussed in geography, this paper illuminates the challenges of emotional labor that are associated with ethnographic fieldwork. For many geographers, fieldwork is an exciting and crucial part of their job, but for some, especially junior faculty and graduate students, there are many undiscussed and unanticipated difficulties associated with this work. We focus on three challenges that in particular require emotional labor: always being on alert, attachment to places, and the relationships to research participants. Building on personal stories from their research in US cities, both authors reveal the hardships and realities of ethnographic fieldwork. Yet, in order to open up more critical dialogue and honest conversations about the emotional toll of research, this paper demands an institutionalization of support services, particularly for Early Career Researchers (ECRs), so fieldwork can continue to be a crucial and rewarding part of our discipline.","PeriodicalId":51487,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geography in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136098396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Integrating ArcGIS Online and digital story mapping for active learning in systematic geography courses","authors":"Paul N. McDaniel, Ulrike Ingram","doi":"10.1080/03098265.2023.2267461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2267461","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAmid the shift to virtual teaching and learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, educators across disciplines were faced with developing new teaching strategies for active learning and significant learning experiences. This paper discusses findings from a case study of integrating ArcGIS Online and StoryMaps for assignments and semester projects in systematic geography courses – health, population, and urban geography. The study assesses the process of incorporating the use of this technology into these upper-division undergraduate courses, with a mix of both geography and non-geography majors, and student perspectives on their learning of and engagement with this technology. With broader applications to different course, discipline, and education contexts, findings suggest increased student engagement, enhanced understanding of course topics and their practical applications, and an appreciation for the opportunity to learn within and work with geospatial technology.KEYWORDS: ArcGIS Onlinegeovisual narrativesStoryMapsactive learningsystematic geography AcknowledgementThank you to the anonymous reviewers and editors for their suggestions throughout the review process, which helped to greatly strengthen this paper. Thank you also to our students and their enthusiastic engagement in our courses.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":51487,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geography in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136098404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Footballing journeys: migration, citizenship and national identity","authors":"David Storey","doi":"10.1080/03098265.2023.2251019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2251019","url":null,"abstract":"Sport, in particular football, can provide a useful means through which to explore the related issues of migration and national identity. Sports stars migrate from one country to another often mirroring patterns of more widespread migration from periphery to core. Such movements are influenced by a range of factors. In an increasingly commercialised and globalised sport, the exploration of footballers’ roots and the routes they take feeds into a consideration of issues of place identity and belonging. In international sporting competition, competitors don the national colours, sing the anthem and “fly the flag”, and in doing so become the embodiment of the wider imagined community. Traditionally those who compete for countries have usually been born and raised there or have lived there for sizeable periods of their lives. In recent years, however, the selection by international sports teams of competitors born in other countries has become increasingly common. The use of these footballing examples provides insights into migration, diaspora, citizenship, globalisation, and the multi-layered and contingent nature of national identity. Sport can offer a useful means of illuminating these various geographic themes and socio-spatial processes, thereby rendering them more accessible and interesting to students.","PeriodicalId":51487,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geography in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135689087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the relation between spatial abilities and STEM expertise","authors":"Eleni Tomai, Margarita Kokla, Christos Charcharos, Marinos Kavouras","doi":"10.1080/03098265.2023.2263735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2263735","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTSmall-scale spatial abilities that involve the mental representation and transformation of two- and three-dimensional images and manipulation of objects at table-top have been studied extensively and are considered predictive of both interest and success in STEM disciplines. However, research investigating the relation of large-scale spatial abilities to STEM disciplines is sparse. The paper describes the design and implementation of a study for assessing individual differences (if any) in spatial abilities in both figural and environmental spaces between STEM experts (with over 10 years of experience) and non-experts (individuals without any studies in STEM fields). Participants’ performance in 16 small-, 10 large-scale tasks, and one self-assessment questionnaire at environmental scale was evaluated to assess their corresponding abilities. Results indicate differences between experts and non-experts, which are mostly highlighted for small-scale abilities where experts outperform non-experts. At large scale, some significant differences are identified, which also favor experts. Correlations among the variables tested provide evidence that different abilities are prominent between experts and non-experts.KEYWORDS: spatial abilitiessmall-scalelarge-scalesurveySTEM expertise AcknowledgementsThe authors would like to thank all individuals who participated in the study and Antonia Stavropoulou for local support. This work was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “First Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty members and Researchers and the procurement of high-cost research equipment” under Grant [Project Number: HFRI-FM17-2661]; and the Erasmus+ Programme under Grant [Project Number: 2020-1-SE01-KA201-077972].Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementThe survey data that support the findings of this study are openly available in figshare at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.20401047.v4.Supplementary materialSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2263735Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the Erasmus+ Programme [Project Number: 2020-1-SE01-KA201-077972]; Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) [Project Number: HFRI-FM17-2661].","PeriodicalId":51487,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geography in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135739511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can GIS use in high school bolster college geography enrollments? The impact of the Geospatial Semester","authors":"Robert A. Kolvoord, Emily Grossnickle Peterson","doi":"10.1080/03098265.2023.2263733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2263733","url":null,"abstract":"Recruiting undergraduate students is a significant challenge for undergraduate geography programs. Few students have robust exposure to geography in secondary school and the major has low name recognition for entering first year students. In fact, geography is often a “found” major on many campuses with students coming to the major after a general education course. But, does it need to be this way? Can geography programs take a more proactive role in building a pipeline of prospective students that is not solely tied to supporting AP Human geography teachers? In this paper, we describe an alternative path for university departments to build strong recruiting pathways, sharing the successes and challenges of building the connections and the learning advantages that students gain through early exposure to geospatial technologies. We focus on the Geospatial Semester, a dual enrollment program between James Madison University and participating school districts in Virginia (and beyond) that began in 2005. We share how departments can build a successful partnership with high schools and the process of sustaining such a program within a university setting. We will also describe the research we have done on the learning gains the Geospatial Semester provides to participating students and how extended use of geospatial technology bolters students’ spatial thinking skills.","PeriodicalId":51487,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geography in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135828236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Geospatial technologies in hazard research and response – a case study of Paper2GIS in an international field course","authors":"Jiri Panek, Benjamin Hennig, Jonathan Huck, Karl Benediktsson","doi":"10.1080/03098265.2023.2263750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2263750","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTGeospatial technologies have revolutionised the field of hazard research as well as geography field-courses, providing powerful tools to analyse and visualise geospatial data for decision-making purposes. This paper presents a case study of Paper2GIS, an application for field data collection tested during an international field course in Seyðisfjörður, East Iceland. The field course was designed to expose students to the practical application of interdisciplinary geospatial technologies in hazard research. Students experienced geological/physical geography field mapping as well as data collection using Paper2GIS. The results demonstrate the effectiveness of Paper2GIS in facilitating hazard research with a participatory component, as well as the simplification of data collection during geography field courses. Paper2GIS proved to be an effective tool for enhancing collaboration, data visualisation, and decision-making. The findings provide valuable insights for researchers, practitioners, and educators looking to incorporate low-tech geospatial technologies into their work.KEYWORDS: participatory mappingparticipatory GISdigital dividesfieldworknatural hazards AcknowledgementThe authors would like to thank the Aurora Alliance for the financial support of the field-course. Aurora has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101035804.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. For further information about the field course see https://geovis.hi.is/teaching/courses/geospatial-technologies-fieldcourse/. Student reports in the form of StoryMaps about their activities can be accessed through https://geovis.hi.is/teaching/storymaps-showcase/aurora-field-course-20222. The Aurora University Alliance is a network of nine European universities. See https://aurora-universities.eu/","PeriodicalId":51487,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geography in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136280505","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"GIS learning and college students’ acquisition and understanding of spatial concepts","authors":"Injeong Jo, Jessie Jungeun Hong-Dwyer","doi":"10.1080/03098265.2023.2263748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03098265.2023.2263748","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTEmpirical evidence is insufficient on the specific roles GIS learning plays in developing students’ understanding various spatial concepts. The present study aims to draw attention to common struggles of learning some spatial concepts in geography and offer directions for future research on GIS learning and the development of student spatial concept lexicon. Three types of technical terms – neutral, helpful associations, and hindering associations – by Glessmer and Brose (2014) provided an excellent framework to explain why some concepts are more or less difficult for students to grasp. Our findings suggest that learning map scale and map projection are relatively easy because they are neutral and introduced as a new vocabulary. Overlay and density are terms provoking helpful associations because they carry a similar meaning in everyday language, so most students had no problems understanding the meaning of these concepts. Spatial association seemed to elicit unhelpful association because everyday use of the term, association, is not precise enough to define spatial association, resulting in students confused with other terms. Future research must be done in the context of GIS requiring students to be able to not only know spatial concepts but clearly articulate these concepts regarding various GIS applications.KEYWORDS: spatial conceptsmisconceptionsGIS learningGIS educationspatial thinking Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).","PeriodicalId":51487,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Geography in Higher Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135385403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}