Students' Geographical Relational Thinking When Solving Mysteries

Autor/inn/en	Karkdijk, Jan; van der Schee, Joop A.; Admiraal, Wilfried F.
Titel	Students' Geographical Relational Thinking When Solving Mysteries
Quelle	In: International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 28 (2019) 1, S.5-21 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Admiraal, Wilfried F.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1038-2046
DOI	10.1080/10382046.2018.1426304
Schlagwörter	Geography; Spatial Ability; Secondary School Students; Problem Solving; Geographic Concepts; Foreign Countries; Secondary School Teachers; Cooperative Learning; Concept Mapping; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geografie; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Sekundarschüler; Problemlösen; Ausland; Kooperatives Lernen; Concept Map; Niederlande
Abstract	Geographical relational thinking is an important part of geographical thinking. This descriptive research was conducted to seek evidence on students' ability to establish geographical relationships which could help teachers to foster their geographical relational thinking. Sixty-nine small student groups from six secondary schools in the Netherlands were observed when solving a mystery. All relationships students established were analysed and the SOLO-taxonomy was used to analyse how coherent their solutions were. The results revealed that students had difficulties with complex, abstract and physical geographical relationships. A large proportion of the groups also had difficulties understanding the interdependence of the relationships. These findings underpin the usefulness of activities like mysteries which offer opportunities to practise, assess and teach geographical relational thinking in geography lessons. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01