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McCarthy, Linda; Sziarto, Kristin – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2015
This paper reports on an introductory world regional geography course with a role-playing exercise. The goal was to situate students in a form of popular geopolitics that engaged them viscerally with positionality and othering. Students were assigned different positionalities in a liminal active learning environment within a context of fear of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Geography, Geography Instruction, Role Playing
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Sziarto, Kristin M.; McCarthy, Linda; Padilla, Nicholas L. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2014
Using a stakeholder debate based on a real-world case of regional construction--that of Turkey's application to join the European Union--improved students' critical thinking in an introductory world regional geography course. Such courses are a staple offering among US geography departments, and often the only exposure of non-majors to geographic…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Geography Instruction, World Geography, Reflection