Full Description
This book proposes a new and central teaching concept "we are all makers" and innovates the geographical teaching modes and methodology. Geography teaching, especially how to teach geographical thinking, is important and related to the development of the discipline. In this field, the exploration of new teaching methods in non-English speaking countries and regions still needs to grow. Based on the author's experience of teaching geographical thinking and human (cultural) geography for more than ten years, the book links geographical thinking to the realistic cases with new social media tools such as WeChat APP and blog. Under the guidance of these new methods, such as poem, emotional, couplet game, keywords, blog-based teaching, and the like, students are transformed from passive recipients of knowledge to active learners and even creators in the end. The book, which focuses on and pioneers new teaching methodology or methods, is used as a reference by scholars, researchers, practitioners, and readers specialized in fields such as geography, education, and pedagogy.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part 1. The new methodology of geography teaching in China.- Chapter 2. Three golden principles in geography teaching: Believing theories, matching cases and reflecting self.- Chapter 3. Place-based thinking: Teaching human geography with a thinking cultivation orientation.- Part 2. New methods of geography teaching in China.- Chapter 4. We Are All Makers: The Method of Keyword Selection in Teaching and Learning Human Geography.- Chapter 5. Teaching human geography using a couplet game.- Chapter 6. Can a WeChat-based application be used to facilitate geography teaching?.- Chapter 7. Anytime, anyspace and anyone: A blog-based model teaching geography.- Chapter 8. Fresh thing for freshman: Exploring a blended method on teaching geographic thought.- Part 3. New directions of geography teaching.- Chapter 9. Names and their meanings: teaching cultural geography with the poem the names of migrant workers.- Chapter 10. Speaking your feelings in the moment: teaching geographic thought with emotion.- Chapter 11. Conclusion.
