Geography teaching introduces the specific thought and work methods of geography and other earth sciences into school. Experimenting as the decisive way of gaining scientific knowledge plays a key role when dealing with ...

So far, international competence research largely has focused on approaches to examine cognitive competence structures. The purpose of the planned study is to investigate both motivational and volitional aspects of ...

Valuation is one of the six areas of competences, which are proclaimed in the Educational Standards in Geography for the Intermediate School Certificate (DGFG 2008). In this article some relevant theoretical considerations ...

A variety of surveys concerning the question why individuals decide to enter into the teacher profession have been carried out so far. Thus, a weakness of these empirical studies from the point of view of geography education ...

This research project is based on the hypothesis that the understanding of complex concepts in physical geography and the geo sciences warped by popular mental models largely immune to change can be rectified through ...

Taking as a basis that on-site learning in the own region has a high educational potential and addressing the objective of promoting the participation of adults, young people and children at regional level, the concept of ...

This study investigates in nature experiences of 14/15 and 17/18 year high school (Gymnasium) students in Bavaria (South Germany). In particular, the author was interested in a) the level of outdoor experiences of each ...

The main goal of the article is to present a consistent system theory which is suitable as a basis for the modelling of geographical system competence. An analysis of the system understanding in physical and human geography ...

Dieser Artikel untersucht, wie Indigenes Ökologisches Wissen (IEK) und nachhaltige Entwicklung in neukaledonischen Geographieschulbüchern und Lehrplänen dargestellt werden. Unsere Fallstudie zeigt, dass staatlich gelenkte ...

Die Fallstudie geht am Beispiel der Geographiedidaktik mit Mitteln der Aktionsforschung der Frage nach, wie Forderungen einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung in einer fachdidaktischen Lehrveranstaltung eingelöst werden können. ...