Research Article

How Do Students Experience a Deprived Urban Area in Berlin? Empirical Reconstruction of Students’ Orientations

Volume: 10 Number: 4 December 31, 2020
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How Do Students Experience a Deprived Urban Area in Berlin? Empirical Reconstruction of Students’ Orientations

Abstract

On the one hand, this paper describes the findings from the implementation of subject-matter teaching and learning via fieldwork in a deprived area (Kottbusser Tor) of Berlin. On the other hand, the authors focus on the explicit and implicit knowledge (which we call orientations) of the students concerning this fieldwork. In a problem-oriented approach, according to the model of a social city, students develop a concept about how to renew the deprived area of Berlin. They gain a variety of new experiences, some of which raise ethical questions. Autonomous group discussions with various school classes in the age group of 14 to 16 (n=30) were carried out after the fieldwork. The documentary method was used for data analysis which resulted in a typology of students. Concerning the orientations of the students, two excluding types of students (marginalising type & distancing type) and two including types (integrating type & normalising type) could be reconstructed. In addition to the benefit of the typology presented in this paper becoming an impulse for students to engage in self-reflection, the typology can also serve as a diagnostic tool for teachers to grasp learning conditions. Furthermore, an understanding also arises about students´ orientations to support the conceptualisation of fieldwork in terms of practical handling and necessary measures for its use.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

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Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

December 31, 2020

Submission Date

July 3, 2020

Acceptance Date

October 3, 2020

Published in Issue

Year 2020 Volume: 10 Number: 4

APA
Luber, L., Fögele, J., & Mehren, R. (2020). How Do Students Experience a Deprived Urban Area in Berlin? Empirical Reconstruction of Students’ Orientations. Review of International Geographical Education Online, 10(4), 500-532. https://doi.org/10.33403/rigeo.763170
AMA
1.Luber L, Fögele J, Mehren R. How Do Students Experience a Deprived Urban Area in Berlin? Empirical Reconstruction of Students’ Orientations. Review of International Geographical Education Online. 2020;10(4):500-532. doi:10.33403/rigeo.763170
Chicago
Luber, Laura, Janis Fögele, and Rainer Mehren. 2020. “How Do Students Experience a Deprived Urban Area in Berlin? Empirical Reconstruction of Students’ Orientations”. Review of International Geographical Education Online 10 (4): 500-532. https://doi.org/10.33403/rigeo.763170.
EndNote
Luber L, Fögele J, Mehren R (December 1, 2020) How Do Students Experience a Deprived Urban Area in Berlin? Empirical Reconstruction of Students’ Orientations. Review of International Geographical Education Online 10 4 500–532.
IEEE
[1]L. Luber, J. Fögele, and R. Mehren, “How Do Students Experience a Deprived Urban Area in Berlin? Empirical Reconstruction of Students’ Orientations”, Review of International Geographical Education Online, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 500–532, Dec. 2020, doi: 10.33403/rigeo.763170.
ISNAD
Luber, Laura - Fögele, Janis - Mehren, Rainer. “How Do Students Experience a Deprived Urban Area in Berlin? Empirical Reconstruction of Students’ Orientations”. Review of International Geographical Education Online 10/4 (December 1, 2020): 500-532. https://doi.org/10.33403/rigeo.763170.
JAMA
1.Luber L, Fögele J, Mehren R. How Do Students Experience a Deprived Urban Area in Berlin? Empirical Reconstruction of Students’ Orientations. Review of International Geographical Education Online. 2020;10:500–532.
MLA
Luber, Laura, et al. “How Do Students Experience a Deprived Urban Area in Berlin? Empirical Reconstruction of Students’ Orientations”. Review of International Geographical Education Online, vol. 10, no. 4, Dec. 2020, pp. 500-32, doi:10.33403/rigeo.763170.
Vancouver
1.Laura Luber, Janis Fögele, Rainer Mehren. How Do Students Experience a Deprived Urban Area in Berlin? Empirical Reconstruction of Students’ Orientations. Review of International Geographical Education Online. 2020 Dec. 1;10(4):500-32. doi:10.33403/rigeo.763170