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Overcoming Scale when Teaching about the World's Complexity
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Birdsall, Stephen S. – Journal of Geography, 2004
One special difficulty in teaching world geography is overcoming the scale differential between individual students' direct experiences and the immense size and complexity of the world. An innovative framework of operational principles, or maxims, has been suggested, and an application of the framework is described. Students search out examples in…
Descriptors: World Geography, Global Education, Measures (Individuals), Student Reaction