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Peer reviewedBrooker-Gross, Susan R. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1991
Presents a case study using a novel to teach of racial, gender, and class bias. Urges use of fiction in teaching geography as a way of introducing students to the ambiance of time and place. Stresses ability of fiction to hold students' interest. Explains that small groups of students research the geography of the novels. (DK)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Geography Instruction, Higher Education, Human Geography
