Alan Jenkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 80049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Jenkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Jenkins |
| SIGNATURE | JENKINS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Science Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 208 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1937 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Racial Equity and U.S. Law
History and experience teach us that our Constitution and laws can be instruments of racial discrimination and oppression as well as tools for advancing freedom and equality. The substance of our laws matters, and there is much to be learned from innovative policies and legal strategies around the country. In addition to laws promoting health equity and racial justice at the state, tribal, and local levels, a new federal Executive Order has the p…
Addressing Racism and Its Deeply Entrenched Dynamics: A 21st Century Imperative
David Pepper and the early years of the JGHE
Forty years of reform and opening up: China’s progress toward a sustainable path
China is experiencing a decoupling of economic growth and environmental impacts.
Ensuring water resource security in China; the need for advances in evidence-based policy to support sustainable management
The global nitrogen cycle in the twenty-first century
Global nitrogen fixation contributes 413 Tg of reactive nitrogen (N r ) to terrestrial and marine ecosystems annually of which anthropogenic activities are responsible for half, 210 Tg N. The majority of the transformations of anthropogenic N r are on land (240 Tg N yr −1 ) within soils and vegetation where reduced N r contributes most of the input through the use of fertilizer nitrogen in agriculture. Leakages from the use of fertilizer N r cont…
Scholarly and Research-based Geography Teaching: Past, Present and Future
Teaching/research relations in departments: The Perspectives of Built Environment Academics
This article presents an analysis of the perceptions of built environment academics in four post‐1992 universities in the UK on teaching/research relations. Whilst set in particular departments, institutions and disciplines, it addresses issues that are of central concern worldwide. This study indicates that securing effective teaching/research links is potentially vital for ensuring that students learn of the complexity of knowledge and develop …
Employment Relations in France: Evolution and Innovation
Understanding 'individualization' in human resource management: The case of 'skill-based pay' in France
'Individualization' in personnel practices has long been considered as an essential component of 'modern' human resources management, but the empirical complexities of its definition, implementation and impact within firms have not been analysed in considerable depth. This paper adds to this analysis by reporting on research into one form of individualization - 'skill-based pay' - adopted in different sectors in France. The crucial institutional …
Employment Relations in France: Evolution and Innovation
Academic Research and Teaching Quality: The views of undergraduate and postgraduate students
Undergraduate and postgraduate students drawn from eight different disciplines at a UK university were asked to participate in structured discussions of the effects of lecturer research activity upon student learning. Both samples showed a substantial preponderance of positive over negative comments. In both groups, the frequency of positive comments about lecturer research activity increased as the quantity and quality of research in their disci…
Employment Relations in France: Evolution and Innovation
Introduction: The French Exception. 1. An Institutional Legacy. 2. A New Era of Reform. A Brief Guide to the Following Chapters. 1: The 'Reform of Work' and the Evolution of Participative Management in France. Introduction. 1. Employee Involvement in France: Perspectives and Strategies. 2. The Impact of 1970's Workplace Experimentation. 3. The Auroux Laws of 1982. 4. The Progression of Work Reform Expression Groups and Quality Circles in the 1980…
The Long-term Effect of a Degree on Graduate Lives
This article considers the long-term effect of a degree on graduate lives. By following-up a degree course which has used active-learning methods within a modular course for over 20 years, we provide a prototype for evaluating the lifelong learning generated by modern day teaching methods. While we concur with other researchers that there are communal benefits from a degree, we also conclude that there is a huge variation in the long-term effects…
The Long-term Effect of a Degree on Graduate Lives
This article considers the long-term effect of a degree on graduate lives. By following-up a degree course which has used active-learning methods within a modular course for over 20 years, we provide a prototype for evaluating the lifelong learning generated by modern day teaching methods. While we concur with other researchers that there are communal benefits from a degree, we also conclude that there is a huge variation in the long-term effects…
Benchmarking in Geography: Some implications for assessing dissertations in the undergraduate curriculum
Internationally there is concern about assessment standards and the qualities of graduating students. In the UK this is resulting in the introduction of benchmarking by disciplinary communities, including that of geography. In that context the authors report on a project across social science disciplines, including geography, in one UK university, to examine and improve the assessment of undergraduate dissertations. The project examined what asse…
Moving with the Times: An oral history of a geography department
The 30-year story of the geography department at Oxford Brookes University is presented as an oral history in the words of the experienced full-time staff. The department has gained a reputation in the UK and beyond for innovative active-learning methods and its story is an example of how a pedagogic culture can develop in a geography department. The story can also be read as a case study of a workplace in higher education, or as a contribution t…
Benchmarking in Geography: Some implications for assessing dissertations in the undergraduate curriculum
Internationally there is concern about assessment standards and the qualities of graduating students. In the UK this is resulting in the introduction of benchmarking by disciplinary communities, including that of geography. In that context the authors report on a project across social science disciplines, including geography, in one UK university, to examine and improve the assessment of undergraduate dissertations. The project examined what asse…
The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in a University Learning Environment
This article reports three related studies which investigate how undergraduates use and think about information and communication technologies (ICT) in the context of learning at university. Data were obtained via questionnaires, computer diary records and focus group discussions. The studies were intended to help universities decide how to incorporate ICT into student learning, how the cost of equipment should be shared between students and inst…
Kolb's Experiential Learning Theory and Its Application in Geography in Higher Education
Kolb's experiential learning theory is one of the best known educational theories in higher education. The theory presents a way of structuring a session or a whole course using a learning cycle. The different stages of the cycle are associated with distinct learning styles. Individuals differ in their preferred learning styles, and recognizing this is the first stage in raising students' awareness of the alternative approaches possible. This art…
Assessing the Undergraduate Dissertation
This paper reports on a study of assessment of undergraduate dissertations in the seven departments which constitute the School of Social Sciences and Law at Oxford Brookes University. Information was gathered from documented material and interviews regarding criteria used in assessment of dissertations. This was analysed to identify the range of criteria across disciplines. Criteria were also examined by administration of a questionnaire asking …
The Relationship between Teaching and Research: Where does geography stand and deliver
Many academics, including distinguished geographers, believe in the close interdependence of teaching - and discipline - based research. However, much of the considerable international research evidence questions this close positive relationship. This research is analysed and then more recent research reviewed which suggests that there can be productive relationships between staff research and teaching, if teaching and research are conceptualised…
Teaching and research: Student perspectives and policy implications
Previous research on the vital but vexed relationship between teaching and research is reviewed and criticised for an overemphasis on correlational studies and for largely neglecting student perspectives on staff research. We present a research study on this issue using focus groups of undergraduate students from a range of disciplines in one institution. Students perceived clear benefits from staff research, including staff enthusiasm and the cr…
Issues and trends in textbook publishing: The views of geography editors/publishers
A group of publishers with international experience of producing geography textbooks outline their views on this particular form of educational resource. Among the issues discussed are the role of textbooks, methods of production, international differences in courses and readership, impact of current changes within the discipline and the higher education system, and emerging technologies that might lead to alternatives to textbooks in the near fu…
Linking the geography curriculum to the worlds of industry, commerce and public authorities
(1995). Linking the geography curriculum to the worlds of industry, commerce and public authorities. Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 177-181
Thirteen ways of doing fieldwork with large classes/more students
The problems of maintaining geography fieldwork with increased student numbers is outlined. Thirteen strategies for coping with these problems are described. Individuals and, in particular, departments are urged to redesign their fieldwork programme using and developing these suggestions to address their own educational priorities. Keywords: Large classesincreased SSRsfieldwork
The Geography of Peace and War
Wars have enormous impact on people, economies and the environment. This book is the first study of the critical issues of war and peace from a geographical perspective, exploring the spatial aspects of the cold war, the arms race and threatened nuclear conflict. A team of distinguished contributors from the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union examine how a kind of peace has been preserved in Europe while conflict has affected most …
The Relationship between Teaching and Research: Where does geography stand and deliver
Many academics, including distinguished geographers, believe in the close interdependence of teaching - and discipline - based research. However, much of the considerable international research evidence questions this close positive relationship. This research is analysed and then more recent research reviewed which suggests that there can be productive relationships between staff research and teaching, if teaching and research are conceptualised…
Expansion, Efficiency and Teaching Quality: The Experience of British Geography Departments 1986-91
Alan Jenkins, Pete Smith, Expansion, Efficiency and Teaching Quality: The Experience of British Geography Departments 1986-91, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 18, No. 4 (1993), pp. 500-515
Enhancing students' employability and self‐expression: How to teach oral and groupwork skills in geography
‘Non‐traditional’ teaching methods emphasizing groupwork and speaking skills‐‐such as those detailed in appendices to this article‐‐should be widely adopted by HE geography teachers. Not only do they enhance students' intellectual development; they also enhance general employability. We discuss seven principles which our experience suggests are important in teaching these skills. Fulfilling them demands forethought and planning by the teacher, wh…
Linking the geography curriculum to the worlds of industry, commerce and public authorities
(1995). Linking the geography curriculum to the worlds of industry, commerce and public authorities. Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 177-181
Academic Research and Teaching Quality: The views of undergraduate and postgraduate students
Undergraduate and postgraduate students drawn from eight different disciplines at a UK university were asked to participate in structured discussions of the effects of lecturer research activity upon student learning. Both samples showed a substantial preponderance of positive over negative comments. In both groups, the frequency of positive comments about lecturer research activity increased as the quantity and quality of research in their disci…
Teaching and research: Student perspectives and policy implications
Previous research on the vital but vexed relationship between teaching and research is reviewed and criticised for an overemphasis on correlational studies and for largely neglecting student perspectives on staff research. We present a research study on this issue using focus groups of undergraduate students from a range of disciplines in one institution. Students perceived clear benefits from staff research, including staff enthusiasm and the cr…
Teaching/research relations in departments: The Perspectives of Built Environment Academics
This article presents an analysis of the perceptions of built environment academics in four post‐1992 universities in the UK on teaching/research relations. Whilst set in particular departments, institutions and disciplines, it addresses issues that are of central concern worldwide. This study indicates that securing effective teaching/research links is potentially vital for ensuring that students learn of the complexity of knowledge and develop …
Break up your lectures: Or Christaller sliced up
Expounding for an hour is, we argue, a relatively poor way of teaching a large group during a 'lecture' period. Problems with such conventional lectures are discussed and a method outlined which overcomes some of these problems. In this method, which we shall call structured lectures, the lecture period is divided up into segments. Only some of these segments involve the lecturer talking. In others students discuss topics or complete exercises se…
Issues and trends in textbook publishing: The views of geography editors/publishers
A group of publishers with international experience of producing geography textbooks outline their views on this particular form of educational resource. Among the issues discussed are the role of textbooks, methods of production, international differences in courses and readership, impact of current changes within the discipline and the higher education system, and emerging technologies that might lead to alternatives to textbooks in the near fu…
Disappearing World Goes to China: A Production Study of Anthropological Films
The general public learns much about 'other' societies through film and television programmes. Films about non-western industrial societies have a definite appeal for a large audience, and television companies have 'responded' by developing a variety of programmes with implicit or explicit anthropological perspectives.! Academic anthropologists need to examine carefully such films to appreciate how their professional concerns are mediated through…
The Social Theory of Claude Lévi-Strauss
Moving with the Times: An oral history of a geography department
The 30-year story of the geography department at Oxford Brookes University is presented as an oral history in the words of the experienced full-time staff. The department has gained a reputation in the UK and beyond for innovative active-learning methods and its story is an example of how a pedagogic culture can develop in a geography department. The story can also be read as a case study of a workplace in higher education, or as a contribution t…
Just-in-Time, 'Regimes' and Reductionism
This article gives critical consideration of a number of points about just-in-time (JIT) production organisation raised by Sewell and Wilkinson in their recent paper in Sociology (May 1992). Their analysis of JIT as a system, and of its 'embedding' in organisations, is shown to be reductionist and the roots of certain aspects of this weakness are related to deficiencies in fashionable neo-Foucauldian notions of production 'régimes'. In its final …
Fending for yourself: Becoming a teacher of geography in higher education
Five geographers, entering teaching in British higher education for the first time, were interviewed about their experiences in the initial year of their new appointments. This paper explores their experiences of making the transition to their new jobs and the wide variety of problems encountered in coming to terms with teaching, research and administration. Conclusions are drawn concerning the development of effective teaching, integration of ne…
The Social Theory of Claude Levi-Strauss
Scholarly and Research-based Geography Teaching: Past, Present and Future
Benchmarking in Geography: Some implications for assessing dissertations in the undergraduate curriculum
Internationally there is concern about assessment standards and the qualities of graduating students. In the UK this is resulting in the introduction of benchmarking by disciplinary communities, including that of geography. In that context the authors report on a project across social science disciplines, including geography, in one UK university, to examine and improve the assessment of undergraduate dissertations. The project examined what asse…
The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in a University Learning Environment
This article reports three related studies which investigate how undergraduates use and think about information and communication technologies (ICT) in the context of learning at university. Data were obtained via questionnaires, computer diary records and focus group discussions. The studies were intended to help universities decide how to incorporate ICT into student learning, how the cost of equipment should be shared between students and inst…
Lecturing is a Political Activity
A polemic is presented, arguing that the traditional lecture (in which the teacher speaks all or most of the time) is both educationally ineffective and in part a political authoritarian act. For those teachers and students who accept this interpretation two suggested directions are outlined. One is to change the form of the lecture to include more student centred activities. Alternatively staff can develop courses with few or no lectures. In con…
British geography: Development and challenge
British geography: Development and challenge." Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 11(2), pp. 169–170
Geographical education and film: An experimental course
We describe and analyse an experimental course which sought to make students more aware of the nature of film and television and to indicate the importance of these media to the geographer. Teaching strategies are outlined, an evaluation of the course is presented, and the implications for teaching this type of course are drawn out
Ensuring water resource security in China; the need for advances in evidence-based policy to support sustainable management
Teaching Geography in Higher Education: A Manual of Good Practice
A Major Force in Music' (A Short Survey of the Life and Work of Kurt Bang)
Portrait of a Poet at College
Research Article| October 01 1950 Portrait of a Poet at College Alan Jenkins Alan Jenkins Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1950) 49 (4): 478–482. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-49-4-478 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Alan Jenkins; Portrait of a Poet at College. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 October 1950; 49 (4): 478–482. doi: http…
Territorial Issues in the Sino‐soviet Conflict
Use posters in your teaching
The Social Theory of Claude Lévi-Strauss
The Social Theory of Claude Levi-Strauss
Get in touch: A guide to directories of geographers
The Social Theory of Claude Levi-Strauss
Geographical education and film: An experimental course
We describe and analyse an experimental course which sought to make students more aware of the nature of film and television and to indicate the importance of these media to the geographer. Teaching strategies are outlined, an evaluation of the course is presented, and the implications for teaching this type of course are drawn out
Seeing beyond seeing: Films on contemporary China
(1983). Seeing beyond seeing: films on contemporary China. Journal of Geography in Higher Education: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 166-178
Break up your lectures: Or Christaller sliced up
Expounding for an hour is, we argue, a relatively poor way of teaching a large group during a 'lecture' period. Problems with such conventional lectures are discussed and a method outlined which overcomes some of these problems. In this method, which we shall call structured lectures, the lecture period is divided up into segments. Only some of these segments involve the lecturer talking. In others students discuss topics or complete exercises se…
The Geography of Peace and War
Wars have enormous impact on people, economies and the environment. This book is the first study of the critical issues of war and peace from a geographical perspective, exploring the spatial aspects of the cold war, the arms race and threatened nuclear conflict. A team of distinguished contributors from the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union examine how a kind of peace has been preserved in Europe while conflict has affected most …
Disappearing World Goes to China: A Production Study of Anthropological Films
The general public learns much about 'other' societies through film and television programmes. Films about non-western industrial societies have a definite appeal for a large audience, and television companies have 'responded' by developing a variety of programmes with implicit or explicit anthropological perspectives.! Academic anthropologists need to examine carefully such films to appreciate how their professional concerns are mediated through…
British geography: Development and challenge
British geography: Development and challenge." Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 11(2), pp. 172–173
Fending for yourself: Becoming a teacher of geography in higher education
Five geographers, entering teaching in British higher education for the first time, were interviewed about their experiences in the initial year of their new appointments. This paper explores their experiences of making the transition to their new jobs and the wide variety of problems encountered in coming to terms with teaching, research and administration. Conclusions are drawn concerning the development of effective teaching, integration of ne…
British geography: Development and challenge
British geography: Development and challenge." Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 11(2), pp. 169–170
Enhancing students' employability and self‐expression: How to teach oral and groupwork skills in geography
‘Non‐traditional’ teaching methods emphasizing groupwork and speaking skills‐‐such as those detailed in appendices to this article‐‐should be widely adopted by HE geography teachers. Not only do they enhance students' intellectual development; they also enhance general employability. We discuss seven principles which our experience suggests are important in teaching these skills. Fulfilling them demands forethought and planning by the teacher, wh…
No Special Place for Geographers—No “Places” at All
Granada television goes to China: The choice of locations and characters
Two films about China made by Granada Television are analysed for their chosen locations and characters. Explanation for these choices is sought through interviews with the production team. Explanation centres on how their Chinese hosts steered them to particular locations and individuals, and how television's need for strong, charismatic individuals determines whose lives are shown. These conclusions are then tentatively generalised to (anthropo…
This is what it is like”. An interview with the writer Geoffrey Moorhouse
Quality control in geography courses: The role and practice of her majesty's inspectors in British higher education
How should departments of geography be assessed, who should do the assessment and what should be the aims of that assessment? These questions are of mounting urgency in Britain where the external assessment of geography courses is an increasingly insistent feature of higher education. This contribution to the debate is divided into four parts. It establishes the context of external appraisal and the potentially‐expanding role of HMIs, offers a pe…
Geography beyond the systematic: Economical with the truth? promotional information to prospective geography students
Acid Deposition at High Elevation Sites
Through a Model Darkly: An Educational Postscript
The conference's concern for GIS education and training is seen from the perspective of an educationist. A model of the curriculum is presented which sees it is an interaction between aims and objectives, content, teaching methods and assessment. This model reveals a conference (and this collection of papers) much concerned with the content of GIS, purposefully discussing the objectives of GIS courses, but with only limited attention to how they …
Global Environmental Monitoring System. Global Freshwater Quality: A First Assessment
Sociology (35 works) · Political science (33 works) · Psychology (27 works) · Geography (26 works) · Pedagogy (25 works) · Geography Education and Pedagogy (21 works) · Higher education (21 works) · Computer Science (19 works) · Mathematics education (19 works) · Economic geography (10 works)