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Powerful Geography International Perspectives and Applications
This book presents the evolution of the Powerful Geography approach to teaching and learning in the United States and how the approach can be adapted...
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The Power of Geography Meets Powerful Geography with Pre-service Teachers in Australia
In Australia, understanding about the power of geography is more prevalent in discourse and practice compared to Powerful Geography. Scholarship...
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Physical Geography and the Study of Environmental Problems: The Brazilian Contribution
This text aims to discuss research into physical geography in Brazil, taking as a reference the transformations of Brazilian geography, especially...
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Powerful Geography Through Historical Geography: A Case Study of Social Studies Teacher Preparation in the United States
Secondary school geography teachers in the United States tend to earn undergraduate degrees that focus on history and social studies. Since each...
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Prospects for Powerful Geography in Japanese Schools: Practical Development Research on Japanese National Curriculum’s Compulsory Subject “Geography”
This study aimed to examine the educational policy background that led to the initial establishment of geography as a compulsory subject in Japanese...
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Student’s Aspirations and Powerful Geography: A Practical Approach in Costa Rica’s Higher Education
The geography undergraduate program at the University of Costa Rica aims to prepare future professionals who can analyze human-environment spatial...
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The Power of Geography for Education in Brazil
In this chapter we seek explore the value of geography in terms of how it can contribute to the development of human potential in Brazil, addressing...
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Carl Sauer’s Contributions to Historical Geography and Human Ecology
Carl Sauer defied disciplinary boundaries and combined geography, ecology, history, and cultural anthropology to examine humans’ impact upon the...
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Beyond the Geography Discipline: Applying the Powerful Geography Approach in a College-Level Data Science Curriculum in Singapore
Powerful geography has established a renewed purpose in geography education, providing a broader and normative framework for school geography. This...
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Density, Division and Distance: Understanding China’s Urban Land-Use Change from an Economic Geography Perspective
Although land-use change driven by general economic factors has been discussed substantially, rarely has any work been done within the perspective of...
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The Foundation and Evolution of Powerful Geography in K-12 Education: An Introduction
This introductory chapter recounts the genesis of Powerful Geography through a historical perspective beginning in the 1980s with the development of...
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Powerful Geography Knowledge Development at the Upper Secondary School Level in Czechia
Considering students’ prior knowledge, everyday experience and future career aspirations when designing geography curriculum and making content- and...
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Thinking Geographically: Making Connections Between School Geography and Future Careers in the United Kingdom
This chapter describes the United Kingdom contribution to an international project which aims to better connect school geography with future careers...
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Developmental state theory and its application in geography
The scholarship on the developmental state has been influential in some scholarly arenas, and virtually ignored in others such as human geography....
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The Economic Geography of Resource-based Cities in North-East China
Northeast China is rich in natural resources and consequently resource extractivism has defined the region’s economic development since early...
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Carl Sauer’s Contributions to Historical Geography and Human Ecology
Carl Sauer defied disciplinary boundaries and combined geography, ecology, history, and cultural anthropology to examine humans’ impact upon the...
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Bringing geography to the community: community-based learning and the geography classroom
Community-based learning is a pedagogical technique designed to bring students out of the classroom and into their communities. Students typically...
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Practicing community geography in times of crisis
Community geography emphasizes the centrality of community engagement to socially transformative research. This introduction to a special issue of GeoJournal...
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Possibilities of Development and Application of Powerful Geography Approach in Geographical Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina
This chapter presents the problems faced by geographical education in the process of educational reform in Bosnia & Herzegovina (B&H). We considered...
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Synthesis of Physical and Human Geography: Necessary and Impossible?
Throughout its recorded history, the aims of geography have shifted between synthesis and specialized systematic studies. Cosmography, as understood...