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Survey Development and Measurement of Geography Teacher Self-Efficacy

Educating Tomorrow's Geographers Through Advanced Placement Human Geography

Space and Place in Students' Learning and Conceptions of Geography

'Expert' Geography Teachers' understanding of space and place: does it affect their teaching?

Australian Educational Experience for Young Taiwanese Immigrants

The Geography of Faculty Salaries at Public IIA Institutions in the United States

The Water Atlas Poster Project: Merging Content and Skills in Undergraduate Geography Courses

'Trainee Primary Teachers' Everyday Geographies and their conceptions of Place and Space'.

An examination of teacher professional development with desktop GIS: The second national implementation survey

The Use of the Mock Trial in Human-Induced Climate Change Education

American Corporate Directors and Educational Affiliations: A Geographical Analysis

Hazards and Academic Standards: What is Mandated in New England?

The Utility of Standardized Achievement Test Scores as a Predictor of Geography Skills in Undergraduates

Schooling Diversity: How Race is Lived in a Diverse High School

Cultivating multiple spaces of 'integration' through linguistic diversity: Toronto public elementary schools as re-definitional sites.

The Role of New Media in Informal Geography Education: Spatial literacy in a Web 2.0 world

Web-Based GIS: A Catalyst for Motivation, Knowledge, and Skills

Mapping marshes and interpreting condos: nature, space and identity in the East Kolkata Wetlands

The Effect of Explicit Instruction in Spatial Thinking

National and International Online Interaction in Geography Education

Hazards Geographers: A Decade of Change

Can a change in conservation knowledge shift scuba divers' environmental value orientation?

"To Produce Indians:" Colonialism, the Educational Spaces of Residential Schools, and Aboriginal Peoples' Contemporary Schooling Marginalization in Canada

The Challenges and Rewards of an Undergraduate Student Learning Interaction

Subverting Carolina Blue: Mapping UNC-Chapel Hill through Drifting and DisOrientation

GK-12 Programs in Geography: Transforming Spatial Thinking in K-12 and Graduate Education

Departmental climate and student experiences in graduate geography programs

Remote Sensing and GIS for Urban Environmental Education: The Minnesota Interactive Internet Mapping (MIIM) Project

Developing a Virtual Geomorphic Atlas

Advising Through Student Experience

"School Ownership is the Goal": Military Recruiting, Public Schools & the Rural Hoosier Homefront

Citizenship Education and the Pedagogical State

Identity Inside Out: South Korea and Its Margins

"A Well-Spent Afternoon": An Analysis of Geography Department Chairs' Perspectives on Early-Career Faculty Development in the United States

Taxonomy of Spatial Thinking: A Framework to Design, Evaluate, and Improve School Geography to Implement Spatial Thinking Skills

Learning about Maps in a Children's Museum

Introduction and Evaluation of a GIS-based, Interactive Learning Tool for the Classroom

Commuting to school: the application of spatial interaction models in the education sector

Changing Patterns of Rural Youth Migration in China: A 1995 and 2005 Comparison

Using GIS across the Curriculum in Higher Education

Sustainable Workforce Development in the Knowledge Economy: A Regional Perspective

Intersecting Spaces of Vulnerability: Special Education in Public Health Care Settings

Measuring Changes in Student Environmental Affect

The Consequences of Space for Geography Education

City of London, City of Learning? Placing business education within the geographies of finance

Developing students' 'personal geographies' - is the personalisation of geography education always beneficial?

Learning Communities, Cities and Regions for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship: the Potential Contribution of School Geography

'Playing' Citizenship: Role Play as Research in Children's Schools

The Three R's of Urban School Space: Reform, Representation, and Reproduction

Teaching Language in the Geography Classroom

The HERODOT Network for Geography in higher education: a case study of an agent of change

Gracious Empowerment: Women's Gender and Class Identity Development on an Elite College Campus

Education Attainment and Labour and Housing Market Access in Boston

Neighbourhood effects and educational achievement in the Dutch context: A multilevel analysis

Professional Benefits of GK-12 Participation for Fellows Engaged with Middle School Science Curricula in Rural East Tennessee

NSF GK-12 International Experiences: the Case of Kent State University and Iceland

Innovative use of Environmental Data in Geographic Education

Centers of knowledge production and brain-drain: a present time picture for South-America

Misconceptions regarding climate change: a literature review

A Modest Manifesto for Today's Organic Intellectual

'Clusters', Hubs', 'Hotspots' and 'Networks': A Case of Fashionable Discourse or a New Geography of Global Knowledge Production for Higher Education?

The denial of racism and the racialization of urban spaces in children's worlds: Influences of Pred on an urban educational ethnography

Articulating voice in Young Peoples' School Geographies: facilitating social agency.

Children's Awareness of Relationship between Their Own Town and Rice Field Landscape through the Experience of Rice Planting on the Upstream of Tenpaku River in Japan

STUDENTS' IDEAS ABOUT GEOGRAPHICAL CONCEPTS AND FEASIBLE STRATEGIES TO INDUCE CONCEPTUAL CHANGE - A STATE-OF-THE-ART OF RESEARCH REPORT

Learning about National Identity through International Collaboration - Perspectives of Undergraduates in the U.S. and Europe

Educational Migration to Russia

Why Do Students Major in Geography - Or Not?

Using Geovisualizations in the Curriculum; Does Multimedia Enhance Geography Education?

Minimizing Racism: Discursive Repertoires Teachers Used to Maintain the Colourblindness of Education

Map Learning: Simultaneous or Sequential?

'deaf' or 'Deaf'?: Contesting boundaries between medicine and culture in mainstreamed deaf education in Ireland.

Top of the World? A Critical Appraisal of World University Rankings

Making roads, making meanings: Makushi communities and the Georgetown-Lethem road of southern Guyana

Predicting Geographic Distribution of Enrollment in A Regional Pharmacy School

"Giving back" beyond the research itself

'Education isn't just about the classroom': Everyday Perceptions of the Second Level Schooling Experience

A Case for Quantitative Thematic Maps in Middle School Curriculum

Regional Disparities in Educational Access in Tanzania: The Need for Improving Secondary Access

Geospatial Information Technologies in Emergency Management Education

PhD Students Meet the Realities of "visiting scientists" in Middle Schools: Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn

A Strategic Outreach and Recruiting Approach for GIS Education: A Vertical Integration

Spatial Concept Presence among K-12 Standards Documents: A Content Analysis of the National Geography, Math, and Science Standards

Building "Global Data Viz", a Tool to Support Spatio-Temporal Visualization of Globalization Data

Windows on Earth and the Issues Involved in Assigning Regions to Our Planet

Creating an Online Geography Course in Remote Sensing at Michigan State University

Environmental Education and Biodiversity Conservation within the Peruvian Amazon

"Urban Expeditions": Creating a new power sharing community space in/of learning

An Investigation of Secondary School Students' Map Skills

Neighbourhood Effects, Educational Outcomes and Public Schools in Helsinki, Finland

Middle School Students' Perceptions of the Distribution and Availability of Safe Drinking Water in the U.S.

Understanding Local School Choice

The Use of Hydrologic Models for Interactive Community Based Storm Water Management

Ethics in U.S. Remote Sensing Education

Comparison of Attrition in an Online and On-campus Master's Programs

A Logical and Coordinated Curriculum: Developing and Perfecting an Undergraduate Geography Major

Engaging Undergraduate Students in Remote Sensing Research by Monitoring the Retreat of Glaciers in the Tropics

Inside Out: Children's Environmental Learning After-School

Graduate Research in Canadian Studies: An Analysis of Trends

Open Source GIS course development through directed group study

Integrated Geospatial Education and Technology Training (iGETT)

The 'Ivory Tower' in the neoliberal city: the urban politics of student voluntarism programs

Incorporating Geospatial Technologies into 2-year and 4-year Colleges: The Non-Traditional Geospatial College Course

IPY Permafrost Courses in Russia

Teaching Cartography on the Web with a Multimedia GIS: A New Solution

Strategically shaping the higher education landscape: competing for international graduate students

When Geography Meets the Metaverse: Teaching Geography in Emerging 3-D Web Social Worlds

Online Atlas of Kentucky

Is There Space for Geography? A Critical Analysis of the Current State of Geography in Secondary Social Studies Curricula in Georgia

Remote Sensing Applications in Introductory College Geography Courses

Geographies of Counter-hegemony: Higher Education For All and the Bolivarian University of Venezuela

Organization Matters in Participatory Watershed Management

Recruiting, Retaining, and Graduating Latinos and African Americans in American Higher Education: A Geographical Analysis.

Altering school district boundaries: Will it ameliorate urban education problems?

Integration of 3D Visualization into Geography Education

Using GIS to develop an education model for alternative high schools

Weather Maps in the Classroom: Stark County, Ohio

Building wetland conservation awareness through environmental interpretation in the southwest region of Puerto Rico: the case of Patillas Community.

Using Google Earth virtual field trips to introduce undergraduate students to the fundamentals of GIS

The Cognitive Mapping Project at Everett Community College

Aerial Photography and Dendrochronology Applied to Historical Vegetation Change in a Southern Appalachian Grass Bald: Instructional Collaboration to Enhance a Graduate Research Experience

Student and Community Benefits of Community-based Learning

From 'teaching' to 'discovery': Geography as a starting point for institutional change

Water Landscapes in Phoenix: Water Educators and Apartment Renters

GIS Educational Frameworks to Support Spatial Data Infrastructure Development.

The Influence of Institutional and Geographic Factors on the Enrollment of Out-of-State Freshmen at Four-Year Colleges and Universities

Fusing GIS and Authentic Research within an Integrated Ninth Grade Curriculum

GIS: A Spatial Learning Tool in the Classroom

"Too entirely and definitively treelike:" Environmental studies in cyberspace

Teaching Literary Worlds: U.S. Regional Children's Literature and the Education of Youth Services Professionals

Virtual Field Trips as a Teaching Tool: Ecoregions in the Continental United States

Development of Mobile GIS exercises for a field methods program

The political science of national identity

Web Delivery of Cartographic Concepts and Best Practices

The Hierarchical Parallel Model (HP-Model) of Spatial Cognition: Integration of neuroscience and education to improve spatial thinking and geographic literacy

Geography Awareness and Thematic Seasonal Maps

Supporting Middle-School Geography Teaching With Google Earth - An East African Example

Overcoming Geographic Illiteracy in a World Regional Geography Course

Restless Spirits in 'Spiritless' Places Place-conscious education - lessons for the academy

Gender Dimensions of Urban Poverty in a Developing Country: The Case of Cape ?Coast in the Central Region of Ghana

Hands-on, Minds-on: A Student-created, On-campus Exercise Using Geocaching, GPS, and GIS

Approaching the Radically Other of Animal and Natural Worlds: Exploring Participatory and Co-design methods in Building Sustainable Schools.

Attitudes, Jobs, and the Future: Parallels for Geography and Geology

Geographic Education in China: Developing a Model Course China Geography

Using an Inner City setting as the Format for a Hydrogeology Curriculum

The impact of physician professional development programs on health care provision and places

English Language Voluntourism: To Teach or to Save the World?

Geographic Knowledge and Spatial Representation Project

Educational Performance and Spatial Convergence in Peru

How do High School Geography Textbooks Measure Up?

Teaching Geography Through Food

Effectiveness of the Cellular Phone GIS in High School Education: from Fieldwork for Land Use in Geography Class

Rereading World Geography Textbooks in terms of Global Education: the case of korea represented in US world geography textbooks

Assessing middle-school, high-school, and college students' interests in geography

The Effectiveness of GIS in Teaching Analytical and Spatial Thinking Skills in Secondary World Geography Classes

A Faculty Development Model for Using Geographic Tools in the Classroom

Incorporating structured digital portfolios into a GIS curriculum

Communicating Tsunamis: Patterns in the educational sources of at risk areas in Humboldt County, CA

Taking Students Abroad from the Ground Up

Incorporating field experiences into the K-12 classroom: GK-12 in Iceland

The Spatial-temporal Distribution of Factors that Contribute to the Decision to Pursue Postsecondary Education

Geospatial Education: Geography vs. Technology vs. Liberal Arts

Role of Internet in the Management of Geography Lesson Plans

Geography teachers and Education for Sustainability in Catalonia. A case study




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