Thomas Barclay Larsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1011787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Barclay Larsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas Barclay |
| FAMILY NAME | Larsen |
| SIGNATURE | LARSEN T B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northern Iowa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5059-1780 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction to Series Two of “Indigenous Perspectives: Convergence Science and Geography Education”
Indigenous citizen scientists, Elders, and scholars belong to geographical traditions that predate the formal discipline of geography. Traditional ecological knowledges (TEKs) embody more than 600
Introduction to “Indigenous Perspectives: Convergence Science and Geography Education”
Geography’s breadth aligns with ongoing interest in bridging Western sciences with methods and modes of interpretation practiced by Indigenous communities (Kimmerer and Artelle 2024). When we explo
Human-Environment Thinking and K-12 Geography Education
Pollution issues, anthropogenic climate change, and biodiversity declines, formerly local in scope, accumulate to threaten crossing planetary boundaries and tipping Earth’s system to an uninhabitable state. The human-environment identity is an unsung cornerstone of geography that can educate upcoming generations of citizens about trends over time, current conditions, and pathways to a more desirable future. The geography education community shoul…
Rounding out the Vision for Geography Education’s Future: Integrating Perspectives of Early Career Scholars in Geography Education
The voice and perspective of early career scholars are particularly important in geography education, a subfield that has traditionally been small and is rapidly becoming smaller due to the retirements of prominent scholars. This research surveys and discusses these early career scholars’ vision for the future of geography education, in light of a rapidly changing context for geography and education alike. We categorize respondents’ research agen…
End of the Field? Hacking Online and Hybrid Environments for Field-Based Learning in Geography Education
Increased liability, limited resources, and global pandemics reduce opportunities for field-based learning and accelerate transition to online education across grade levels and geographic contexts. Conventional expectations about teaching through fieldwork (i.e., in-person, led by the instructor) no longer encompass geography as a field discipline. Prospects for field-based learning diversify as technologies make “out there” available “right here…
Who Needs a World View
When students enter a graduate program in geography, they are likely to take a course on geographic history and philosophy, also known as geographic thought. Textbooks on the matter typically trace
A Human-environment Timeline
Concern about accelerating human impact on Earth systems coincides with discussion of adding a new proposed geologic epoch that would document the Age of Humans. This research contributes a human-environment timeline prototype. Time-period classification provides academics and citizens alike with a common temporal reference frame for discussion and further investigation. A hierarchical human-environment timeline was built from analysis of entries…
Geographic Thought and the Anthropocene: What Geographers Have Said and Have to Say
Drawing from early modern and contemporary geographic thought, this article explores how the premise of an Anthropocene (Age of Humans) can be used to reinforce enduring modes of human–environment thinking. Anthropocene dialogues build on insights posed by geographers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: unity of nature, humans as nature made conscious, humans as nature’s conscience, and time periods as devices for thinking about hum…
Humanistic geography
First formalized by geographer Yi‐Fu Tuan in 1976, humanistic geography refers to a wide‐ranging body of research emphasizing the importance of human experience and meaning in understanding people's relationship with places and geographical environments. Recognizing that human involvement with the geographical world is complex and multidimensional, humanistic geographers interpret human action and awareness as they both sustain and are sustained …
Life Takes Place: Phenomenology, Lifeworlds and Place Making
The making of America’s culture regions
The Making of America’s Culture Regions, by Richard Nostrand, is an accessible, unpretentious distillation of the massive body of research cultivated by Donald W. Meinig and a number of traditional
American Trappist Monasteries and the Changing Spiritual Landscape
Spiritual landscapes arise from a dynamic relationship of spiritual beliefs, ritual practices, and embodied encounters in place. They can contain multiple spiritual and non-spiritual elements that change over time. This paper offers an appreciation of the diverse, overlapping, and ambivalent meanings emerging from Trappist monasteries in the United States. With origins tracing back to eleventh-century France, Trappist monasteries are Roman Cathol…
Geographic Thought and the Anthropocene: What Geographers Have Said and Have to Say
Drawing from early modern and contemporary geographic thought, this article explores how the premise of an Anthropocene (Age of Humans) can be used to reinforce enduring modes of human–environment thinking. Anthropocene dialogues build on insights posed by geographers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: unity of nature, humans as nature made conscious, humans as nature’s conscience, and time periods as devices for thinking about hum…
A Human-environment Timeline
Concern about accelerating human impact on Earth systems coincides with discussion of adding a new proposed geologic epoch that would document the Age of Humans. This research contributes a human-environment timeline prototype. Time-period classification provides academics and citizens alike with a common temporal reference frame for discussion and further investigation. A hierarchical human-environment timeline was built from analysis of entries…
The making of America’s culture regions
The Making of America’s Culture Regions, by Richard Nostrand, is an accessible, unpretentious distillation of the massive body of research cultivated by Donald W. Meinig and a number of traditional
American Trappist Monasteries and the Changing Spiritual Landscape
Spiritual landscapes arise from a dynamic relationship of spiritual beliefs, ritual practices, and embodied encounters in place. They can contain multiple spiritual and non-spiritual elements that change over time. This paper offers an appreciation of the diverse, overlapping, and ambivalent meanings emerging from Trappist monasteries in the United States. With origins tracing back to eleventh-century France, Trappist monasteries are Roman Cathol…
Humanistic geography
First formalized by geographer Yi‐Fu Tuan in 1976, humanistic geography refers to a wide‐ranging body of research emphasizing the importance of human experience and meaning in understanding people's relationship with places and geographical environments. Recognizing that human involvement with the geographical world is complex and multidimensional, humanistic geographers interpret human action and awareness as they both sustain and are sustained …
Life Takes Place: Phenomenology, Lifeworlds and Place Making
End of the Field? Hacking Online and Hybrid Environments for Field-Based Learning in Geography Education
Increased liability, limited resources, and global pandemics reduce opportunities for field-based learning and accelerate transition to online education across grade levels and geographic contexts. Conventional expectations about teaching through fieldwork (i.e., in-person, led by the instructor) no longer encompass geography as a field discipline. Prospects for field-based learning diversify as technologies make “out there” available “right here…
Who Needs a World View
When students enter a graduate program in geography, they are likely to take a course on geographic history and philosophy, also known as geographic thought. Textbooks on the matter typically trace
A Human-environment Timeline
Concern about accelerating human impact on Earth systems coincides with discussion of adding a new proposed geologic epoch that would document the Age of Humans. This research contributes a human-environment timeline prototype. Time-period classification provides academics and citizens alike with a common temporal reference frame for discussion and further investigation. A hierarchical human-environment timeline was built from analysis of entries…
Geographic Thought and the Anthropocene: What Geographers Have Said and Have to Say
Drawing from early modern and contemporary geographic thought, this article explores how the premise of an Anthropocene (Age of Humans) can be used to reinforce enduring modes of human–environment thinking. Anthropocene dialogues build on insights posed by geographers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries: unity of nature, humans as nature made conscious, humans as nature’s conscience, and time periods as devices for thinking about hum…
Human-Environment Thinking and K-12 Geography Education
Pollution issues, anthropogenic climate change, and biodiversity declines, formerly local in scope, accumulate to threaten crossing planetary boundaries and tipping Earth’s system to an uninhabitable state. The human-environment identity is an unsung cornerstone of geography that can educate upcoming generations of citizens about trends over time, current conditions, and pathways to a more desirable future. The geography education community shoul…
Rounding out the Vision for Geography Education’s Future: Integrating Perspectives of Early Career Scholars in Geography Education
The voice and perspective of early career scholars are particularly important in geography education, a subfield that has traditionally been small and is rapidly becoming smaller due to the retirements of prominent scholars. This research surveys and discusses these early career scholars’ vision for the future of geography education, in light of a rapidly changing context for geography and education alike. We categorize respondents’ research agen…
Introduction to Series Two of “Indigenous Perspectives: Convergence Science and Geography Education”
Indigenous citizen scientists, Elders, and scholars belong to geographical traditions that predate the formal discipline of geography. Traditional ecological knowledges (TEKs) embody more than 600
Introduction to “Indigenous Perspectives: Convergence Science and Geography Education”
Geography’s breadth aligns with ongoing interest in bridging Western sciences with methods and modes of interpretation practiced by Indigenous communities (Kimmerer and Artelle 2024). When we explo
Sociology (9 works) · Geography (6 works) · Geography Education and Pedagogy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (4 works) · Human geography (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works)