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This timely book examines advances in teaching and learning at undergraduate level from the disciplines of geography education, neuroscience and learning science. Connecting these disciplines, the chapters integrate research on how students learn and explain how to teach students to think geographically and develop a deeper understanding of their world. Questioning what it means to think geographically, the editors identify ten elements that characterize thinking geographically including the weaving of various perspectives, making connections, creating meaning through spatial thinking, relational thinking and multi-scalar thinking. The book offers a collection of turnkey exercises designed by geography educators for use in human geography courses. These insightful exercises are designed to assist with promoting geographic thinking and learning, The editors provide a matrix that serves as an outstanding resource. Teaching Human Geographymakes a unique and significant contribution to geography education as an excellent resource for instructors looking to improve their practice and facilitate learning. Addressing how geography teaching can be transformed, it will also improve undergraduates' ability to think geographically by integrating research in learning science and geography education.

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9781800885196

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'This extremely readable book shows geography to be the world subject. More than this, it argues that students who learn to think geographically ... discover a new way of seeing the world . In the context of Anthropocene, the educational potential of geography is therefore vast - but is not guaranteed. This book expertly melds theoretical perspectives about 'learning' with some brilliant examples of structured teaching and thus makes a fine contribution to the development of geography education in practice.' -- David Lambert, UCL Institute of Education, UK 'There has arguably never been a more urgent need for young people to learn how to think geographically at a high level of proficiency. This book demonstrates the significance of geography's powerful knowledge for understanding human systems with many practical applications to support high quality geography instruction.' -- Michael Solem, Texas State University, US

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Edited by Erin Hogan Fouberg, Professor of Geography and Associate Provost, Northern State University, Aberdeen, South Dakota and Janet Stuhrenberg Smith, Emeritus Professor of Geography, Department of Geography and Earth Science, Shippensburg University, Pennsylvania, US

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