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Study Abroad Article

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Study Abroad

• Fewer than 10 percent of college students study overseas during undergraduate years.

• Three times as many foreigners study in America as the other way around.

• One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home stay in a really different country, like Bangladesh or Senegal?

• Time abroad also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed. If more Americans had overseas experience, our foreign policy might be wiser.

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Study Geography

• Fewer than 10 percent of college students study GEOGRAPHY during undergraduate years.

• Three times as many foreigners study GEOGRAPHY than Americans.

• One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by studying GEOGRAPHY?

• Studying GEOGRAPHY also leaves one more aware of the complex prism of suspicion through which the United States is often viewed. If more Americans had GEOGRAPHIC EXPERTISE, our foreign policy might be wiser.

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What is this item called?

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Truths can be spatially contingent

• How far from the here do you live?

• What time is it?

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http://sco.lt/9Hv2h7

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Truths can be scale-dependent

• Where are you from?

• Is overpopulation a problem in North America?

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GEOGRAPHICAL CLASSIFICATION

World

Realms

Regions

Neighborhoods

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Globalization has made the world ‘flat’

• Geography has been conquered• Place is increasingly less relevant

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Global News Demands Geographic Context

http://www.scoop.it/t/geography-education/?tag=Ukraine

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Diverse cultural understanding needed

• Army training

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Geography education is not…

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How can competent teachers help students understand a complex

interconnected world?

Provide geographic informationTeach geographic concepts

Use data, maps, and geospatial technologyAsk questions which encourage spatial thinking.

Geographic Literacy

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1. Provide geographic information

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Environmental changes require holistic, systemic thinking

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Perspective

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2. Teach geographic concepts

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What do these maps have in common?

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3. Use data, maps, and geospatial technology

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Regions are increasingly interconnected

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Geography integrates Social Studies

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4. Ask questions which encourage spatial thinking.

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How is this a “human” landscape?

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Boeing 787 assembly plant in Everett, Washington

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• Human imprint on Earth’s surface.

CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

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Multiple layers on the landscape

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2002 2010

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3 Types of Place

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http://sco.lt/66w27d

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Messages of cultural landscapes?

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Cultural Landscape Meanings

http://www.scoop.it/t/geography-education/?tag=landscape

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Cultural Landscapes

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How can competent teachers help students understand a complex

interconnected world?

Provide geographic informationTeach geographic concepts

Use data, maps, and geospatial technologyAsk questions which encourage spatial thinking.

Geographic Literacy