
ERIC Number: EJ433715
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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ISSN: ISSN-0085-0969
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Commonsense Geography.
McHoul, Alec
Geographical Education, v6 n2 p50-53 1990
Presents an ethnomethodological study of how Australian high school geography teachers and students rely on common sense knowledge and reasoning to facilitate learning. Analyzes portions of transcripts from a class activity in which students built a scale model of a city. Explains location categorization devices, illustrating how learning involves practical reasoning based on culture-bound knowledge. (CH)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Communication, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Classroom Techniques, Concept Teaching, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Context, Epistemology, Foreign Countries, Geographic Concepts, Geography Instruction, High Schools, Locational Skills (Social Studies), Schemata (Cognition), Secondary Education, Sociolinguistics, Urban Studies, Videotape Recordings
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Teachers; Researchers; Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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