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Publication Date: 2018
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Junior High School Chinese Students' Images of the Geographer: A Study of Their Drawings
Yang, Daihu
International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, v27 n4 p357-373 2018
Geographical education has been primarily centering on curriculum, teaching and learning, research about the images that students perceive of the geographer is under presented. Missing out on such research is akin to losing a piece integral to a whole mosaic pattern. Drawing on previous approach, this study explored students' images of the geographer by administering a Draw Geographer Test (DGT) to 212 seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade students from China. Findings suggest that the geographer is prominently imaged as a Han Chinese, male and physical geographer wearing casual clothes with a magnifying glass, maps, books and/or a globe around and observing, surveying and/or exploring in mountains and valleys. It is suggested that geography education should mitigate the strongly gendered image, duly expose students to more doings of the human geographer, current geographical technology and various working contexts, raise an inclusive perspective of the geographer's ethnicities, deliver students specific information about geographical career as well as translate positive images into a possible geographical career.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Student Attitudes, Freehand Drawing, Schemata (Cognition), Geography, Geography Instruction, Cognitive Tests, Projective Measures, Physical Characteristics, Sex Stereotypes
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Junior High Schools; Secondary Education; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: China
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