International Web debate on learning and teaching geography in HE hots up
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Dear Colleagues
Have you joined in the International Web Debate on Learning and teaching geography in higher education yet? All the papers are now on-line and a lively discussion is taking place! It will continue until 13 August 2004 (http://www.gees.ac.uk/iguevent.htm <http://www.gees.ac.uk/iguevent.htm> ). You do not need to be a geographer to participate.
In the run-up to the post-International Geographical Union workshop in Glasgow on 21-23 August, the International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education (INLT) is organising the Web discussion. The debate is hosted by the UK’s Higher Education Academy subject centre for Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences.
International groups of geographers from 10 different countries have produced six downloadable outline discussion papers to stimulate discussion around the following themes:
1. Fieldwork
2. Problem based learning
3. ICT, distance learning and the curriculum
4. Enhancing employment, key skills and the curriculum
5. Teaching for social transformation, including diversity issues (e.g. race, disability)
6. Linking research and teaching.
Your comments on any, or all, of these papers and points raised in the discussion they have stimulated should be sent by email to Mike Sanders ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ) for adding to the Web site with a clear indication as to which paper and discussion theme you are contributing. Please also state your institutional affiliation (if any) and your country.
The groups will use the discussion as a starting point at the Glasgow workshop for revising the outline papers in preparation for submission of an edited collection to the Journal of Geography in Higher Education (JGHE).
We hope that you will find the outline papers and the discussion stimulating and enjoyable. Although no more contributions will be accepted after 13 August the record of the debate will still be accessible.
Best wishes
Mick Healey
Professor Mick Healey
Co-Chair of INLT
Director Geography Discipline Network
Senior Advisor for Geography LTSN Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Subject Centre
National Teaching Fellow
School of Environment
University of Gloucestershire
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