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Geographical Education in Northern Ireland: past, present and… future?

Tracey McKay (2019)

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Geographica

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In Northern Ireland geography is taught in primary and post-primary education, where it is a compulsory subject to age 14. Thereafter, students decide if they wish to continue to GCSE (age 16) and to A-level by age 18. Mirroring geography in the school sector, geographical education also features within initial teacher education programmes in Northern Ireland. However, the configuration of the subject, its place within the local educational landscape and its popularity with students...

The role of a geography textbook in developing key competences – a comparative study

Mariola Tracz, Jolanta Rodzoś (2015)

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Geographica

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A textbook plays an important role in modernization of the teaching process and in the achievement of set teaching objectives. From a didactic perspective, very important is the structure of contents that activates a school student via e.g. a set of didactic tasks. It seems important in the context of developing self-study and long-life learning skills of school students. Self-study becomes a necessity in the modern society due to technological advancement and constantly growing requirements...

Modern School Geography and Inquiry Education

Dagmar Popjaková, Petra Karvánková (2019)

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Geographica

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School geography is a subject which has more possibilities to modernize the teaching than other subjects. It is thanks to the interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary character of the geography science in general. Modern geography could benefit mainly from the cross-curricular links. At the same time it applies modern, but concurrently established and verified concepts as for example inquiry-based education, philosophy for children, global development education or the use of mobile applications...

Professor Edward A. Friedman in a Nutshell

Editors (2015)

Serdica Journal of Computing

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Edward A. Friedman is Professor Emeritus of Technology Management at Stevens Institute of Technology. His undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Physics are from MIT (1957) and Columbia University (1963), respectively. As Dean of Stevens Institute of Technology (1973–1983) he led innovations on applications of computer and networking technologies in undergraduate education, which were studied and emulated by universities worldwide. Dr. Friedman was responsible for the pioneering requirement...

Dydaktyka geografii – teoria i metodologia (na przykładzie Bułgarii)

Maya Vasileva, Kliment Naydenov, Georgi Kotseff (2019)

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Geographica

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Understanding, mastering and applying new ideas in geography didactics is the most proper way to achieve a high professionalism in geography education in Bulgaria. Such professionalism implies three prerequisites: a scientifically based (and not only intuitive) professional activity, high and sustainable results and a clear positive attitude towards it. The high professionalism is the required basis for successful solving the current problems of Bulgarian geography education which are...

Specifics of Geography Teacher Training at the Faculty of Natural Sciences Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra

Magdaléna Nemčíková, Zuzana Rampašeková, Hilda Kramáreková, Alena Dubcová (2019)

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Geographica

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The Slovak education is currently experiencing a turbulent period associated with ongoing efforts to reform the education system, under-funding of education with low teacher salaries, overworked and feminized teaching staff, low social status of a teacher in society, problems in the creation and distribution of current textbooks, insufficient interest in studying natural sciences, leaving of young people to study abroad, etc. This situation is also reflected in the training of future...