In a project jointly organized by a German high school and the local university’s Department of Geography, students together with their teachers and scientists investigated the usage and state of water bodies in their ...

In this empirically based study the syllabuses of geography instruction are evaluated by academics at the university level. They had to evaluate the objectives and terminology of physical geography, human geography and ...

Using an explorative multi-phase study we tried to explore the effectiveness of so called ‘Basic Modules’ in teaching. These teaching modules have been created for a range of geographical topics and contain theory-based ...

Given Germany’s low frequency of GI(S) use in its secondary schools’ geography classrooms, we surveyed 410 teachers on their point of view of main impediments to wider implementation of GI-applications and the chances ...

Spatial information and decisions are increasingly modeled with the help of geomedia. Likewise the access to geomedia and tools for geomedia production is democratized as part of the web2.0. Thus, reflexive geomedia ...

Polar Regions are used by scientists as early warning system of global climate change, and their significance in climate change science should be reflected in the geography curriculum. Taking a psychology approach, the ...

The establishment of national educational standards and the re-orientation towards the achievement of competencies as the main goal of geographic education have raised the importance of meta-cognitive knowledge on geography ...

This article concentrates on the advancement of competencies in argumentation during geography lessons. Firstly, the significance of conducting arguments for comprehension intensive learning of geographical contents and ...

The article at hand refers to results from an evaluation study on the 2009 oral A-level examinations in Geography/History plus International Economic and Cultural Regions at Austrian Commercial Academies (secondary ...

The impact of students’ conceptions and interests on organisation and effectivity of teaching is undisputable. The following article presents the results of different empirical studies dealing with natural disasters. In ...