Research Article

Cramming Facts and Thinking Concepts: Instance of Preparation of Student Geography Teachers in Liberec

Volume: 4 Number: 3 December 31, 2014
  • Jaroslav Vávra *
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Cramming Facts and Thinking Concepts: Instance of Preparation of Student Geography Teachers in Liberec

Abstract

In general, geographical education is closed into two strands. First, in geographical content (knowledge), there are geographical facts on the one hand and on the other hand there is geographical thinking. Second, in geographical cognition there is rote learning in behavioral strategy on the one hand and on the other hand meaningful learning in constructivist strategy. This study presents interactions into the two strands and it describes theoretical sources that comes from geography, geographical education and cognitive psychology and presents experience of the Liberec students, student geography teachers, and their preparation for their job. Access is laying on key courses, Classroom Management, Czech Geographical Curriculum and Geographical Exercises and Projects. In geographical projects, fieldworks and enquiry are preferred. Geographical (scientific) content is emphasized that is transferred into school geographical education. Methods which are used in the text result from description of development of geographical education in the Czech R. (one hundred years). This evaluation is based on wider frame of geographical curriculum, above all on English curriculum and US geography standards. The key tool of analysis is used in a revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives. Results are implemented into the courses in which future geography teachers in Liberec are prepared and practiced

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

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Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Jaroslav Vávra * This is me
Czech Republic

Publication Date

December 31, 2014

Submission Date

October 19, 2014

Acceptance Date

December 22, 2014

Published in Issue

Year 2014 Volume: 4 Number: 3

APA
Vávra, J. (2014). Cramming Facts and Thinking Concepts: Instance of Preparation of Student Geography Teachers in Liberec. Review of International Geographical Education Online, 4(3), 261-280. https://izlik.org/JA25WJ82CY
AMA
1.Vávra J. Cramming Facts and Thinking Concepts: Instance of Preparation of Student Geography Teachers in Liberec. Review of International Geographical Education Online. 2014;4(3):261-280. https://izlik.org/JA25WJ82CY
Chicago
Vávra, Jaroslav. 2014. “Cramming Facts and Thinking Concepts: Instance of Preparation of Student Geography Teachers in Liberec”. Review of International Geographical Education Online 4 (3): 261-80. https://izlik.org/JA25WJ82CY.
EndNote
Vávra J (December 1, 2014) Cramming Facts and Thinking Concepts: Instance of Preparation of Student Geography Teachers in Liberec. Review of International Geographical Education Online 4 3 261–280.
IEEE
[1]J. Vávra, “Cramming Facts and Thinking Concepts: Instance of Preparation of Student Geography Teachers in Liberec”, Review of International Geographical Education Online, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 261–280, Dec. 2014, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA25WJ82CY
ISNAD
Vávra, Jaroslav. “Cramming Facts and Thinking Concepts: Instance of Preparation of Student Geography Teachers in Liberec”. Review of International Geographical Education Online 4/3 (December 1, 2014): 261-280. https://izlik.org/JA25WJ82CY.
JAMA
1.Vávra J. Cramming Facts and Thinking Concepts: Instance of Preparation of Student Geography Teachers in Liberec. Review of International Geographical Education Online. 2014;4:261–280.
MLA
Vávra, Jaroslav. “Cramming Facts and Thinking Concepts: Instance of Preparation of Student Geography Teachers in Liberec”. Review of International Geographical Education Online, vol. 4, no. 3, Dec. 2014, pp. 261-80, https://izlik.org/JA25WJ82CY.
Vancouver
1.Jaroslav Vávra. Cramming Facts and Thinking Concepts: Instance of Preparation of Student Geography Teachers in Liberec. Review of International Geographical Education Online [Internet]. 2014 Dec. 1;4(3):261-80. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA25WJ82CY