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Code

GEO 611

Category

Optional

ECTS

7,5

Hour per Week

3

E-services

e-class

Instructors

Chiou V.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, postgraduate students are expected to:

  • Recognize the significance of teaching human geography topics in primary and secondary education.
  • Identify the core axes and principles underlying contemporary geography education curricula.
  • Design instructional scenarios focused on human geography topics.
  • Develop training seminars centered on human geography themes.
  • Apply modern teaching and assessment methods in the design of instructional and training materials.
  • Utilize a variety of tools for the design and creation of digital storytelling projects.
  • Design and produce digital narratives focusing on human-geographical issues.
  • Collect, process, and integrate geographical information to create educational and training material in human geography, taking into account the characteristics of the target audience.
  • Identify and select, from a wide range of communication and dissemination methods, those most appropriate for promoting specific human geography topics in educational and community contexts.
  • Develop enhanced collaborative, social, and communication skills, as well as self-expression abilities.

General Competences

  • Research, analysis, and synthesis of data and information using appropriate technologies
  • Decision-making
  • Independent and group work
  • Work in an interdisciplinary environment
  • Generation of new research ideas
  • Respect for difference and multiculturalism
  • Demonstration of social, professional, and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Development of critical thinking and self-reflection
  • Encouraging free, creative and deductive thinking

Course Content

Modern geography education programs
The place of human geography in the Greek primary and secondary education curricula
Modern methods and techniques for teaching human geography
Modern assessment techniques
Designing a teaching scenario focused on human geography topics
Designing a training seminar focused on human geography topics
Examples of teaching scenarios – Assessment
Examples of training seminars – Assessment
Methods of presenting and promoting human geography in education and the community
Digital storytelling (comics, geographic comics, podcasts, videos, posters)
Designing digital storytelling to highlight and promote human geography topics

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  • European Journal of Geography (http://www.eurogeographyjournal.eu/).
  • Review of International Geographical Education Online (RIGEO) (http://rigeo.org/).
  • The Geography Teacher (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rget20).
  • Journal of Geographical Sciences (https://link.springer.com/journal/11442).
  • Journal of Geography (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjog20/current).
  • Journal of Geography in Higher Education (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cjgh20).
  • Journal of Environmental Geography (https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/jengeo).
  • The Geographical Journal (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1475-4959).
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