this is the third and final installment of a series of audio recordings of the discussions which arise amongst the teachers who are taking a Masters-in-Education module offered by my colleague and i. the discussion which i present here centred around the role of fieldwork in geographical education.
because this fiftieth episode of ventriloquy is 89 minutes in duration, i've split it into two parts. the first part is 111.7 MB in size, and captures two presentations in response to a quotation by Willard Miller in 1981: "One of the traditional tasks in geography is the study of spatial reality. A major means of accomplishing this is through fieldwork."
specifically, the two teachers were tasked to centre their presentations around the following related questions: "How do the 'traditional tasks' in geography compare with the more contemporary ones? To what extent have the means to these ends evolved over time?"
Show notes:
Section A: presentation I
- Outline of presentation
- Importance of fieldwork to geography teaching
- Learning geography through fieldwork
- Evolution of fieldwork (overview)
- Fieldwork in the '50s & '60s
- Fieldwork in the '70s
- Fieldwork in the '80s
- Fieldwork in the present day (overview)
- Geographical enquiry
- Discovery fieldwork
- Sensory fieldwork
- ICT and fieldwork
- Enquiry-learning and fieldwork
- Fieldwork then and now
- Looking ahead
- Virtual fieldwork - evaluation
- Field-based learning outside the UK
- Field-based learning in Singapore
- Conclusion
- Reflections
Section B: presentation II
- Development of fieldwork
- Evolution of field-based tasks
- Traditional approach
- Quantitative revolution
- Issues-based approach
- Dimensions of field-based learning
- Caveats for the planning of fieldwork
- Some summative thoughts
- Fieldwork and thinking skills
- Example I: Malaysia 2003
- Example II: orienteering in Kent Ridge Park
- Sharing on map reading
