The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed an alarming chasm between traditional higher education pedagogies and the lived experiences of students, posing new challenges to educators worldwide . Addressing this, our study proposes a curricular paradigm shift that foregrounds sensory and embodied learning. Influenced by a Critical Pedagogy of Place…

Film as a tool for learning offers considerable opportunity for enhancing student understanding. This paper reflects on the experiences of a project that required students to make a short film demonstrating their practical understanding of qualitative methods. In the psychogeographical tradition, students were asked to "drift" across the…

Teachers are responsible for delivering, selecting, and implementing learning activities for their classrooms. They must consider the best approaches to engage their students as well as to meet the school's standards in instruction. Here is a practical how-to book to supplement the social studies curriculum. It places at the teacher's disposal,…

Although American cities have changed and, many feel, declined, they remain important resources for educating. The life and architecture of the cities hold lessons for students from grade school to college. Using the city at hand, the teacher can help to create a new breed of informed, active urban citizens. (KH)

Discusses generally how a city can be used as an educational resource and presents a learning activity for middle-level social studies students. The lesson involves having student closely examine an aerial photograph of Hampton, VA, from the 1920s. Then, students make inferences from the photo about the lives of residents of Hampton at that time.…

By conducting a pedestrian survey, secondary or college level students answer the question "What is the best location for a new business requiring maximum pedestrian traffic?" They collect data on the number and types of people on streets in a commercial area of a city. (RM)

Describes a grade eight course which focused on the neighborhood surrounding an inner city school. The course's objectives were to have students identify architectural features and their relations to architectural styles; ascertain the dominant style and date of probable period of construction; and make a composite map of the area, showing…

Two exercises are presented to show that changes in the size of urban populations invove the demographic processes of migration and natural change. Discussion of these exercises and the result provides a useful introduction to various aspects of urban growth and to the role and nature of models in studying urban processes. (JR)

Future studies used in geographic education, encourages students to think systematically about the future of the society and environment in which they live. Projects involving urban studies, technology, ecology and social change are examined. (JR)

Presented is a three-week independent study unit in which secondary students analyze present urban conditions and then create their own images of the city of the future. (RM)

A multi-disciplinary approach to environmental studies for high school students, combining the areas of earth science, social science, and health education, is developed in this guide. Student Action for the Valley Environment (SAVE) is primarily a simulation program concerned with a serious problem of today--the survival of life in the cities. It…

Describes a project which investigates urban poverty through a field study approach. The article examines course aims and objectives, pre-planning and organization, activities, and program assessment. (Author/DB)

A sample unit providing materials and activities for grades 5-12 familiarizes the student with concerns affecting his future in relation to the energy crises and his role as a citizen. (Author/KM)

Presents a case study showing how Seattle, Washington, has transformed a freeway into an attractive addition to the city. Students are directed to study roadways in their communities and suggest ways of beautifying the less desirable ones. (Author/DB)

Examines industrial relocation of firms in Worcester, Mass., from 1966-70 as an example for discovering what kinds of firms relocate and why. Intended as a sample study, the project provides an initial data base for one community as a model for students to use while obtaining data bases on other communities. (Author/DB)