“强有力的地理学科知识”的构建--桥接地理学术研究与基础教育

“强有力的知识”思想,为人们理解课程知识提供了新视角,推动了课程知识理论的发展,也为我国以培养学生核心素养为中心的课程改革提供了参考与借鉴。旨在探索地理教育目的、价值和实现途径的国际“地理可行能力”项目,将“强有力的地理学科知识”作为其核心组成部分。本文通过分析“强有力的地理学科知识”的概念理论渊源、力量源泉和内涵构成,提出其类型与人才培养目标对应体系,从学术共同体和开放参与式平台两方面探索我国“强有力的地理学科知识”的构建路径。     

我国地理学高等教育与人才培养现状分析

高等地理教育对地理学基础教育人才和科研创新人才培养起着重要作用,本文通过对我国地理学本专科专业设置与招生状况、二级学科研究生培养机构的统计,分析我国地理学高等教育与人才培养的现状。研究发现：我国地理学高等教育学校或机构的数量有了明显增加,学科发展明显增强,各级各类人才的培养规模取得较大发展,但同时也存在地区发展不平衡、培养机构的背景比较单一、生源质量和地理院系冠名多样化等问题。     

试论地理教学中加强环境保护教育

环境问题已严重地威胁着人类的生存,提高全人类的环境意识,必要而紧迫.本文论述了环境问题的具体表现和如何在地理教学中对学生进行环境教育.     

Programmed Learning: Its Relationship to Geographical Education

Abstract

In the past decade, scientists have become increasingly concerned with man's pollution of the atmosphere and his inadvertent ability to effect change in climate at macro scales. The nature of such change is not yet known, but in this article, the premise that continued atmospheric pollution will promote higher air temperatures and ultimately coastal flooding through melting of all solid water forms, is accepted as inevitable. The author speculates on the probability of such an event and cartographically analyzes the possible extent of change in continental shapes and sizes, as well as the impact of world inundation on population densities and distributions. Projecting to 2050 A.D. as the earliest possible date for the maximization of this occurrence, it is expected that the expanding oceans will have reduced continental surfaces by approximately 17%, and roughly 19% of the population of the mid-21st century will have been relocated.     

Geography Education Across the Atlantic at the Geographical Association

Abstract

The Geographical Association (GA) is an international association of over 10,000 geography educators headquartered in Sheffield, England. The National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) and the GA have similar goals. The GA's annual conferences provide an excellent opportunity to begin geography education partnerships between the NCGE and the GA. Operating exhibits and teaching workshops on geographic information systems at the last three Geographical Association conferences at universities in England afforded the opportunity to network with teachers and pave the way for future collaboration.     

A Comparison of the International Charters on Geographical Education

This article uses discourse analysis techniques associated with Foucauldian archaeology to examine the two international charters developed by the International Geographical Union Commission on Geographical Education (IGU-CGE), the original one in 1992 and the revised version endorsed in 2016 at the Beijing conference. The examination considers the consultation and development processes before outlining similarities and differences in the messages communicated and how discourses have changed through time. The article concludes with recommendations for the geography education community for the future.     

Learning with Geographical Sensitivity: Place-Based Education and Its Praxis

This study presents pragmatic evidence to make learning a geographical process. It investigates how place-based education (PBE) can deepen the sense of place and vice versa. The study first reviews the meaning of PBE and continues with an ontological discussion of place. As place is theorized, learning practices in the course Sustainable Urban Development and Hong Kong are outlined. The submissions of students are analyzed, and selected reflections are presented to interface with the ontological construct of place. We examine how PBE can enrich student awareness of place and in what way student appreciations of place can add values to the geographical reasoning on sustainability- and urbanism-related topics. Results show that site selection is important and place in PBE is both real and imagined. Heritage conservation and place revitalization are potential reflective topics to design a PBE-based teaching praxis.     

遥感与地理信息认知与教育

该文阐述遥感与地理数据编码后的图形与图像在数学上属于同一类问题，其数据编码的一面相当于训练抽象思维的代数学，图形图像的一面相当于训练形象思维的几何学，因此遥感与地理信息相当于训练抽象思维与形象思维结合的解析几何学。人脑的信息处理功能有左右脑皮层的分工与合作，左脑皮层偏重抽象思维，右脑皮层偏重形象思维。当集中某一问题思考时，大脑两半球的神经组成临时网络，以不同的脑波组合(β，α，θ，δ)，从兴奋、沉思、恍然大悟到积极证明的科学用脑过程，是脑能与创造性的源泉。笔者提出遥感与地理信息认知学的目的，是启发认识遥感与地理信息的本质，训练抽象思维与形象思维结合的能力，触发深度知觉，培养坚忍不拔的意志素质，从而达到科学规律发现和技术工具创新的目的。     

Geographical Text-Books and Geographical Teaching

Abstract

We are teaching the television generation in our college classrooms and if we can't beat' em, we should certainly join' em. Visual images can, indeed, be effective teaching tools in geography. Three uses of a “classic” concealed image of Jesus Christ in a melting snowfield are discussed. First, the image serves as an example of the geographer's search for spatial regularities. On a more interpretative level, the concealed image becomes a metaphor for the quasi-religious quest for scientific truth. If we aren't careful, this quest can devolve into Ideological explanation. Finally, the mysterious origin of the Jesus image is akin to an urban legend. Its origin may be used to illustrate the fallibility of scientific citation as can the image entitled “My Wife and My Mother-in-Law” incorrectly cited by the geographer William Kirk. Whether the Jesus image was a natural event or a product of human creation is an object lesson in the pitfalls of imputed intentionality.     

地理信息系统在中学地理教学中的应用

本文简要地介绍了地理信息系统,并对地理信息系统运用于中学地理教学的必要性作了分析,最后列举了地理信息系统在中学地理教学的应用案例.在数字化时代,地理信息系统能将其强大功能,尽快地应用于中学地理的教与学当中.     

培养学生地理信息素养初探

随着网络技术全球化的发展,地理信息进入新的时代,引发了地理教学的变革.本文提出在教学层次、学生思维能力上挖掘实践学习的内涵;用课堂练习、第二课堂活动、半开放型考试等各种实践学习方式,来引导并检查学生将课本知识转变为综合信息的创新能力,以提高学生运用信息能力的素养.