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Jenny Sjöholm; Kristina Trygg – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2025
This article looks at a challenge-based learning (CBL) approach that aims to engage students in sustainable transitions within urban and regional planning. Drawing on CBL, we focus on how living labs -- the idea of using a city as a site for user-driven innovation and development -- can be used as a site and methodology in education and research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Planning, Regional Planning, Metropolitan Areas
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Davidson, Julie; Prahalad, Vishnu; Harwood, Andrew – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2021
There are increasing pressures within the higher education sector to incorporate digital pedagogies into teaching and learning, a trend amplified by recent extensive recourse to online delivery within the sector. This trend carries with it both opportunities and challenges in effectively fostering those graduate competences that a converging…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Blended Learning, Problem Based Learning, Experiential Learning
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Meijles, Erik; Van Hoven, Bettina – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2010
Drawing on experiences from a project conducted in the "Drentsche Aa" area in the Netherlands, this article discusses the concept of the "rural atelier" as a form of problem-based learning. The rural atelier principle was used originally in rural development planning and described as such by Foorthuis (2005) and Elerie and…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Foreign Countries, Rural Development, Teaching Methods
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Miller, Gill – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2013
This paper discusses a fieldwork exercise in development geography undertaken by students in the UK. Based on community engagement in partnership with refugee and black minority communities in Liverpool, it explores how such fieldwork can deepen understanding of development geography, contribute to global citizenship and nurture personal skills.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Involvement, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries
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Thomas, Ian; Meehan, Barry – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2010
Many universities have strategies for exposing students to international experiences, but little is reported on their implementation. One example of an implemented activity is the multidisciplinary research project for undergraduate environment students, at RMIT University, that both prepares students to work in the environment profession and…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Cultural Awareness, Environmental Education, Career Choice
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Bradbeer, John – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 1996
Recommends employing problem-based learning (PBL) in the preparation of geography students for field classes. Utilizing PBL students work on problems drawn from professional practice with the assistance of tutors. Briefly reviews the characteristics, contributions, and issues of PBL and provides an undergraduate geography case study. (MJP)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Experiential Learning, Field Instruction, Field Studies