Michael Solem
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4773104 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michael Solem |
| NOMBRES | Michael |
| APELLIDO | Solem |
| FIRMA | SOLEM M |
| AFILIACIONES | American Association of Geographers |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 127 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Mapping gay, queer, and trans emotions in Lou Reed’s song lyrics
With his band the Velvet Underground and over several decades as a solo musician and performer, Lou Reed was motivated by an artistic interest in observing, understanding, and empathizing with the people of New York City. Reed’s grounded approach to songwriting generated albums full of urban geographic stories. This paper examines the emotional geographies contained in Reed’s songs featuring characters based on gay, queer, and trans individuals w…
Assessing the Effects of Geocomputation Lessons on Secondary School Students’ Perceptions of Geography and Computer Science
Toward a Critical Geography Education
We argue for a critical turn in geography education for the purpose of making the field more attentive to questions of power, the production of social differences such as race, class, gender, and sexuality, and the implications of such differences for situated knowledge production and dissemination. To develop this argument, we draw on emerging work in environmental education grounded in Black feminist theory and practice and bring that work into…
Twenty Years of Advanced Placement Human Geography
This Focus section of The Professional Geographer contains four articles that were prepared for a program assessment of Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography. Using twenty years of AP program data, the authors probe into the participation of students in the course and how they fared on the exam. AP exam data were analyzed at the national, state, and district-level scales as well as for students differentiated by grade level, race, ethnicity, an…
Advanced Placement Human Geography Exam Participation and Performance in Texas School Districts
Texas is the state with the largest number of students taking the Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography exam. State policy allows schools to offer AP Human Geography in ninth grade as a substitute for the on-level World Geography Studies course. AP’s growth in Texas has been driven by state policy that financially incentivizes students, teachers, and schools to participate in the program. This article examines changes in the geographic distribu…
Advanced Placement Human Geography
Since 2001, the Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography program has grown substantially in terms of the sheer number of students taking the course and exam. The program’s growth curve is a marker of increased exposure to complex subject matter in high schools, which is a core AP objective. Viewing AP Human Geography’s growth in the aggregate, however, masks the program’s unequal record of supporting the second fundamental goal of AP, which is to …
Advanced Placement Human Geography
Advanced Placement (AP) is a program initially developed by the College Board to engage “superior” high school students with rigorous college-equivalent coursework. Because the AP program has the potential to facilitate the college placement and success of diverse youth, the College Board has made equitable AP access a core objective. This article reports the results of an assessment conducted to gain a better understanding of the number and char…
Lou Reed’s Emotional Geography
Reducing Inequality in Student Outcomes in U.S. Geography Education
This study examines relationships between geography achievement and the psychological characteristics of geography learners in eighth grade. Using data provided by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the researchers developed a statistical model of geography achievement comprising student and teacher/school-level predictor variables. The model included five predictor variables based on composite measures of student affective d…
Geography Achievement and Future Geographers
Broadening participation in scientific fields, conceptually, is about enhancing the involvement and academic outcomes of underrepresented groups at all levels of education. In recent decades the American Association of Geographers (AAG) and geography departments have collaboratively worked to increase the representation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities among undergraduate students, graduate students, and the academic and nonaca…
Factors That Affect Student Outcomes in U.S. Geography Education
The ideal of U.S. public education as "a great equalizer" remains unrealized across large swaths of the country. Young people in schools are at varying levels of educational advantage and disadvantage owing to wide gaps in learning opportunities and disparate access to high-quality curriculum. Unequal educational achievement has also been linked to inequities affecting some students before they enter school due to socioeconomic circumstances, pre…
Building Educational Capacity for Inclusive Geocomputation
To build educational capacity for the rapidly evolving science and profession of geocomputation, the American Association of Geographers piloted an Encoding Geography research-practice partnership (RPP) composed of geography and computer science educators and researchers. This commentary describes the process, known as Collective Impact, that was implemented to investigate the persistent problems of practice that have limited the participation of…
Geography, Student Outcomes, and Education Debts
Student- and School-Level Predictors of Geography Achievement in the United States, 1994–2018
This paper examines national gaps and trends in geography achievement in eighth grade from 1994 to 2018. Statistical models comprising student- and school-level variables were developed to predict achievement using data provided by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Although there were statistically significant relationships between achievement and school-level attributes such as geographic region and school sector, the magni…
Geography Education
The Road Map for 21st Century Geography Education in the United States was an initiative to identify priorities for research, professional development, and assessment at all levels of geography education. Since the publication of the Road Map Project's research agenda, an interdisciplinary network of researchers has worked to implement multiple lines of research supporting the Road Map Project's recommendations. This entry reviews this network's …
The Naep Geography Assessment
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) program periodically conducts national-level assessments of student achievement in geography. In July 2019, the National Assessment Governing Board announced a decision to eliminate geography, economics, arts, and foreign language assessments from the NAEP testing schedule through 2029. In this commentary, we review the reasons behind the Governing Board’s decision and discuss what geographer…
Issues in improving geography and earth science teacher education
Earth Science and Geography teacher preparation has developed to some degree along different lines, despite sharing many of the same issues, especially with regard to challenges in teacher education. The conference “International Perspectives on Geography and Earth Science Teacher Education 2016” wanted to bring together educators from both sciences from around the world together to move the debate about these challenges forward. From the researc…
The Rise of Powerful Geography
The Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education and National Center for Research in Geography Education propose a new framework for geography called Powerful Geography, which revolutionizes the traditional notion of standards in geography education. Combining Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's principles of human capabilities, Michael Young's theory of powerful disciplinary knowledge, and Wesley Null's concept of a liberating curriculum, Powerful Ge…
Geography Education, Workforce Trends, Twenty‐First‐Century Skills, and Geographical Capabilities
Geography education is important preparation for work in a broad array of private and public sector organizations. Career opportunities are growing and diversifying internationally for geographers as demand rises for geographic expertise and skills. At the same time, geography students will encounter challenges, initially from the job search and then in securing a position and learning how to practice geography in varied workplaces with markedly …
Geography Education, Primary and Secondary
This entry highlights and compares international patterns in geography education at primary and secondary levels, focusing especially on the United States, Europe, and Asia. The authors consider regional similarities and differences in the structure, content, and aims of geography in schools and teacher education systems. The entry concludes with a discussion of research issues and emerging frameworks for international collaboration and dialogue …
A capabilities approach to higher education
A geographical education offers more than skills, subject knowledge and generic attributes. It also develops a set of discipline-specific capabilities that contribute to a graduate’s future learning and experience, granting them special ways of thinking for lifelong development and for contributing to the welfare of themselves, their community and their world. This paper considers the broader purposes and values of disciplinary teaching in contri…
Achieving Human Potential Through Geography Education
This article provides the theoretical underpinnings for an innovative international collaborative project in the field of geography education named GeoCapabilities. The project attempts to respond in new ways to enduring challenges facing geography teachers in schools. These include the need to find convincing expression of geography's contribution to the education of all young people and coping with the apparent divergence of geography in educat…
Changing doctoral education
Internationalizing geography education
We are also grateful for the additional funding support provided by the AAG, the Journal of Geography in Higher Education, and Taylor & Francis. The International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education provided important logistical support
Geography Education for “An Attainable Global Perspective”
This article considers approaches to promoting global perspectives as both cognitive and affective learning outcomes within geography education. Particular attention is paid to the work of Robert Hanvey, who proposed “An Attainable Global Perspective” in the 1970s, which explicitly ties to the content and perspectives embedded in geographic education. However, this approach was situated within a particularly American perspective on the nature and…
International Virtual Field Trips
Virtual Field Trips (VFTs) have a valuable role in supporting and enhancing real fieldwork and empowering students who are disadvantaged financially or physically. The development of good VFT and VFT tools is still in its infancy and full 'virtuality' is still many years away. This article traces the evolution of virtual field trips, outlining their advantages and disadvantages and provides a brief overview of the materials and approaches current…
Career goals, pathways and competencies of geography graduate students in the USA
This study examines the motivations and career goals of geography graduate students and the extent they are prepared in transferable skills. Women and students specializing in geographic information science and technology are primarily motivated by career opportunities in the private sector, whereas doctoral students express a preference for academic career paths and their goals are more influenced by faculty and departmental prestige. Students i…
Using the Internet to Support International Collaborations for Global Geography Education
This paper reports the results of a pilot study that evaluated a prototype instructional module designed to support international collaborative learning in the World Wide Web. The module, Migration, was tested at four higher education institu tions in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Students valued the opportunity to learn global geography by collaborating electronically in multinational teams, yet many students complained about confusi…
A capabilities approach to higher education
A geographical education offers more than skills, subject knowledge and generic attributes. It also develops a set of discipline-specific capabilities that contribute to a graduate’s future learning and experience, granting them special ways of thinking for lifelong development and for contributing to the welfare of themselves, their community and their world. This paper considers the broader purposes and values of disciplinary teaching in contri…
Gauging Disciplinary Engagement with Internationalization
As higher education institutions worldwide seek to internationalize academic programmes, questions arise as to how institutions can effectively involve and support faculty in that process. The present study rests on the premise that professional development can play a decisive role in advancing two important components of internationalization—specifically international collaboration and the teaching of global perspectives by geography faculty. To…
Achieving Human Potential Through Geography Education
This article provides the theoretical underpinnings for an innovative international collaborative project in the field of geography education named GeoCapabilities. The project attempts to respond in new ways to enduring challenges facing geography teachers in schools. These include the need to find convincing expression of geography's contribution to the education of all young people and coping with the apparent divergence of geography in educat…
Developing and Enhancing International Collaborative Learning
This paper is concerned with the role of international collaboration in the learning and teaching of geography in higher education. The dual aims are to provide a brief and selective review of the nature and range of international collaboration and to contextualize such observations within the internationalization project. It is argued that despite the growing interest and literature concerned with the internationalization of higher education, di…
Concerns, Attitudes, and Abilities of Early‐Career Geography Faculty
Professional experiences during graduate school through the first few years of an academic appointment shape patterns of work and social behavior that prefigure the long‐term success of new faculty members, including prospects for tenure and promotion. We explore these experiences through interviews and surveys with a sample of early‐career faculty in postsecondary American geography. Our analysis reveals that teaching is the primary source of an…
The Rise of Powerful Geography
The Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education and National Center for Research in Geography Education propose a new framework for geography called Powerful Geography, which revolutionizes the traditional notion of standards in geography education. Combining Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's principles of human capabilities, Michael Young's theory of powerful disciplinary knowledge, and Wesley Null's concept of a liberating curriculum, Powerful Ge…
Geography Education for “An Attainable Global Perspective”
This article considers approaches to promoting global perspectives as both cognitive and affective learning outcomes within geography education. Particular attention is paid to the work of Robert Hanvey, who proposed “An Attainable Global Perspective” in the 1970s, which explicitly ties to the content and perspectives embedded in geographic education. However, this approach was situated within a particularly American perspective on the nature and…
Internationalizing Professional Development in Geography through Distance Education
This paper assesses the value and relevance of geography education in the realm of professional development. It explores the potential of distance education to support lifelong learners through courses or modules that operate across international boundaries and incorporate materials from local and global contexts. The authors argue that Internet-enabled distance education offers the potential to extend access to many prospective students who are …
Rethinking Postgraduate Education in Geography
This symposium brings together multi-national assessments of the current state of and challenges facing postgraduate education in geography. Contributors from Europe, Australia, South Africa and the USA identify ways in which restructuring of educational systems and wider political contexts affect programmes within the field. While highlighting the implications of initiatives such as restructuring of degrees in European universities, merging of G…
Evaluating the Impact of International Collaboration on Geography Learning
The Center for Global Geography Education (CGGE) is a set of online modules exploring geographic issues, which allow collaborative analysis and discussion between international teams of undergraduates. Using data from trials held in 10 countries, the modules' effectiveness in improving student understanding of geographic concepts and appreciation for cross-cultural perspectives on the issues were evaluated. Analysis of qualitative and quantitativ…
Concerns, Attitudes, and Abilities of Early-Career Geography Faculty
Professional experiences during graduate school through the first few years of an academic appointment shape patterns of work and social behavior that prefigure the long-term success of new faculty members, including prospects for tenure and promotion. We explore these experiences through interviews and surveys with a sample of early-career faculty in postsecondary American geography. Our analysis reveals that teaching is the primary source of an…
Factors That Affect Student Outcomes in U.S. Geography Education
The ideal of U.S. public education as "a great equalizer" remains unrealized across large swaths of the country. Young people in schools are at varying levels of educational advantage and disadvantage owing to wide gaps in learning opportunities and disparate access to high-quality curriculum. Unequal educational achievement has also been linked to inequities affecting some students before they enter school due to socioeconomic circumstances, pre…
Rethinking Postgraduate Geography Education in the USA
Postgraduate geography education in the USA is growing and changing. In recent years, the number of postgraduate programs has increased at both the doctoral and master's levels. Interest in improving and reforming doctoral education has increased dramatically both inside and outside geography, and geography has been involved in these reforms. Master's programs in the USA face somewhat different concerns. One difference is that, in some respects, …
The Virtual Geography Department
Recent curriculum development projects have introduced geographers to the theory and practice of online instruction. One of these projects, the Virtual Geography Department (VGD) at the University of Texas at Austin, seeks to promote the development of high-quality instructional materials on the Web. Twenty-nine participants in the VGD project were interviewed for the purpose of learning what effects the VGD had on their educational practice. The…
Concerns, Attitudes and Abilities of Early-career Geography Faculty’
We would like to thank the judges of the JGHE for this award. We are honored to be selected, particularly in light of the quality of the other papers nominated for this year's competition as well a
International Virtual Field Trips
Virtual Field Trips (VFTs) have a valuable role in supporting and enhancing real fieldwork and empowering students who are disadvantaged financially or physically. The development of good VFT and VFT tools is still in its infancy and full 'virtuality' is still many years away. This article traces the evolution of virtual field trips, outlining their advantages and disadvantages and provides a brief overview of the materials and approaches current…
The Virtual Geography Department
Recent curriculum development projects have introduced geographers to the theory and practice of online instruction. One of these projects, the Virtual Geography Department (VGD) at the University of Texas at Austin, seeks to promote the development of high-quality instructional materials on the Web. Twenty-nine participants in the VGD project were interviewed for the purpose of learning what effects the VGD had on their educational practice. The…
Using the Internet to Support International Collaborations for Global Geography Education
This paper reports the results of a pilot study that evaluated a prototype instructional module designed to support international collaborative learning in the World Wide Web. The module, Migration, was tested at four higher education institu tions in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Students valued the opportunity to learn global geography by collaborating electronically in multinational teams, yet many students complained about confusi…
Concerns, Attitudes, and Abilities of Early‐Career Geography Faculty
Professional experiences during graduate school through the first few years of an academic appointment shape patterns of work and social behavior that prefigure the long‐term success of new faculty members, including prospects for tenure and promotion. We explore these experiences through interviews and surveys with a sample of early‐career faculty in postsecondary American geography. Our analysis reveals that teaching is the primary source of an…
Concerns, Attitudes and Abilities of Early-career Geography Faculty’
We would like to thank the judges of the JGHE for this award. We are honored to be selected, particularly in light of the quality of the other papers nominated for this year's competition as well a
Internationalizing Professional Development in Geography through Distance Education
This paper assesses the value and relevance of geography education in the realm of professional development. It explores the potential of distance education to support lifelong learners through courses or modules that operate across international boundaries and incorporate materials from local and global contexts. The authors argue that Internet-enabled distance education offers the potential to extend access to many prospective students who are …
Concerns, Attitudes, and Abilities of Early-Career Geography Faculty
Professional experiences during graduate school through the first few years of an academic appointment shape patterns of work and social behavior that prefigure the long-term success of new faculty members, including prospects for tenure and promotion. We explore these experiences through interviews and surveys with a sample of early-career faculty in postsecondary American geography. Our analysis reveals that teaching is the primary source of an…
Developing and Enhancing International Collaborative Learning
This paper is concerned with the role of international collaboration in the learning and teaching of geography in higher education. The dual aims are to provide a brief and selective review of the nature and range of international collaboration and to contextualize such observations within the internationalization project. It is argued that despite the growing interest and literature concerned with the internationalization of higher education, di…
Evaluating the Impact of International Collaboration on Geography Learning
The Center for Global Geography Education (CGGE) is a set of online modules exploring geographic issues, which allow collaborative analysis and discussion between international teams of undergraduates. Using data from trials held in 10 countries, the modules' effectiveness in improving student understanding of geographic concepts and appreciation for cross-cultural perspectives on the issues were evaluated. Analysis of qualitative and quantitativ…
Gauging Disciplinary Engagement with Internationalization
As higher education institutions worldwide seek to internationalize academic programmes, questions arise as to how institutions can effectively involve and support faculty in that process. The present study rests on the premise that professional development can play a decisive role in advancing two important components of internationalization—specifically international collaboration and the teaching of global perspectives by geography faculty. To…
Introduction
Departmental Climate and Student Experiences in Geography Graduate Programs’
Rethinking Postgraduate Geography Education in the USA
Postgraduate geography education in the USA is growing and changing. In recent years, the number of postgraduate programs has increased at both the doctoral and master's levels. Interest in improving and reforming doctoral education has increased dramatically both inside and outside geography, and geography has been involved in these reforms. Master's programs in the USA face somewhat different concerns. One difference is that, in some respects, …
Rethinking Postgraduate Education in Geography
This symposium brings together multi-national assessments of the current state of and challenges facing postgraduate education in geography. Contributors from Europe, Australia, South Africa and the USA identify ways in which restructuring of educational systems and wider political contexts affect programmes within the field. While highlighting the implications of initiatives such as restructuring of degrees in European universities, merging of G…
Career goals, pathways and competencies of geography graduate students in the USA
This study examines the motivations and career goals of geography graduate students and the extent they are prepared in transferable skills. Women and students specializing in geographic information science and technology are primarily motivated by career opportunities in the private sector, whereas doctoral students express a preference for academic career paths and their goals are more influenced by faculty and departmental prestige. Students i…
Internationalizing geography education
We are also grateful for the additional funding support provided by the AAG, the Journal of Geography in Higher Education, and Taylor & Francis. The International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education provided important logistical support
Geography Education for “An Attainable Global Perspective”
This article considers approaches to promoting global perspectives as both cognitive and affective learning outcomes within geography education. Particular attention is paid to the work of Robert Hanvey, who proposed “An Attainable Global Perspective” in the 1970s, which explicitly ties to the content and perspectives embedded in geographic education. However, this approach was situated within a particularly American perspective on the nature and…
Changing doctoral education
Achieving Human Potential Through Geography Education
This article provides the theoretical underpinnings for an innovative international collaborative project in the field of geography education named GeoCapabilities. The project attempts to respond in new ways to enduring challenges facing geography teachers in schools. These include the need to find convincing expression of geography's contribution to the education of all young people and coping with the apparent divergence of geography in educat…
Geography Education, Workforce Trends, Twenty‐First‐Century Skills, and Geographical Capabilities
Geography education is important preparation for work in a broad array of private and public sector organizations. Career opportunities are growing and diversifying internationally for geographers as demand rises for geographic expertise and skills. At the same time, geography students will encounter challenges, initially from the job search and then in securing a position and learning how to practice geography in varied workplaces with markedly …
Geography Education, Primary and Secondary
This entry highlights and compares international patterns in geography education at primary and secondary levels, focusing especially on the United States, Europe, and Asia. The authors consider regional similarities and differences in the structure, content, and aims of geography in schools and teacher education systems. The entry concludes with a discussion of research issues and emerging frameworks for international collaboration and dialogue …
A capabilities approach to higher education
A geographical education offers more than skills, subject knowledge and generic attributes. It also develops a set of discipline-specific capabilities that contribute to a graduate’s future learning and experience, granting them special ways of thinking for lifelong development and for contributing to the welfare of themselves, their community and their world. This paper considers the broader purposes and values of disciplinary teaching in contri…
The Rise of Powerful Geography
The Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education and National Center for Research in Geography Education propose a new framework for geography called Powerful Geography, which revolutionizes the traditional notion of standards in geography education. Combining Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum's principles of human capabilities, Michael Young's theory of powerful disciplinary knowledge, and Wesley Null's concept of a liberating curriculum, Powerful Ge…
Issues in improving geography and earth science teacher education
Earth Science and Geography teacher preparation has developed to some degree along different lines, despite sharing many of the same issues, especially with regard to challenges in teacher education. The conference “International Perspectives on Geography and Earth Science Teacher Education 2016” wanted to bring together educators from both sciences from around the world together to move the debate about these challenges forward. From the researc…
Geography Education
The Road Map for 21st Century Geography Education in the United States was an initiative to identify priorities for research, professional development, and assessment at all levels of geography education. Since the publication of the Road Map Project's research agenda, an interdisciplinary network of researchers has worked to implement multiple lines of research supporting the Road Map Project's recommendations. This entry reviews this network's …
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