The undergraduate geography fieldweek
Challenges and changes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11954977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lindsey Mcewen (0000-0003-4496-359X, corresponding author), Frank Harris |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 411-421 |
| Publication date | 1996-11-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Geography in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8265 • E-ISSN: 1466-1845 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03098269608709384 |
| OpenAlex | W2016619804 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 20 |
In the 1990s, undergraduate geography programmes have come under pressure to change from both internal and external forces. In part, this relates to the process of restructuring associated with the increasing trend towards modular undergraduate courses in higher education institutions in the United Kingdom. There has also been a growing emphasis on incorporating training into undergraduate degree programmes, particularly to encourage the development of transferable skills which enhance graduate employability. This paper looks at how the traditional undergraduate geography fieldweek lends itself to being reshaped and reorganised to meet the challenges of these changes. Issues are illustrated with reference to a well‐established, second‐year fieldweek to Belgium and The Netherlands
Employability · Engineering ethics · Higher education · Medical education · Pedagogy · Political science · Process (computing · Restructuring · Sociology · Transferable skills analysis · Undergraduate education · Computer Science · Cryospheric studies and observations · Engineering · Geography Education and Pedagogy · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
Disrupting the ‘whiteness’ of fieldwork in geography
An Evaluation of Foreign Fieldwork in Promoting Deep Learning
Looking Out, Looking In
Teaching 'Transition' in Central and Eastern Europe through Fieldwork
An Unbelievable Academic and Personal Experience
Fieldwork in geography education
Using a Web-based Resource to Prepare Students for Fieldwork
Fieldwork in geography teaching
Teaching Research Through Field Studies
Activating the Classroom
Interpretive field geomorphology as cognitive, social, embodied and affective epistemic practice
Teaching geography in higher education
Curriculum development and ‘enterprise’
Introducing humanistic geography through fieldwork
Why modularisation, why now, and what implications does it have for geographical teaching
Discussion papers
Fieldwork as theatre
Oral and groupwork skills
Computers and the field class
Enhancing students' employability and self‐expression
Fieldwork in the undergraduate geography programme
Field notebooks
The changing national context of fieldwork in geography
Modularisation and geography
Addressing the new agenda for fieldwork in higher education
The problems with fieldwork
Experiential learning through integrated project work
The Student's Companion to Geography
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1997 - 2023 (27) |
| Highly cited | No |