International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education
Editors: A/Prof John Lidstone, Queensland University of Technology and Prof Joseph P. Stoltman, Western Michigan University
Book Review Editor: Dr Sarah Witham Bednarz, Texas A & M University
Editorial Assistant: Donna Bennett, Australia
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Volume: 8 Number: 2 Page: 120–139
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People-environment Issues in the Geography Classroom: Towards an Understanding of Students' Experiences
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Mark Rickinson
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This paper is concerned with a much neglected area of environmental and geographical education research- the student experience of environmental teaching and learning. Based in the context of an ongoing
research project into the teaching and learning of people-environment issues in English secondary school geography classrooms, this paper explores the ways in which two students are experiencing the curriculum
within one particular lesson and how their views of this lesson relate to those of their teacher. The scope of the paper is both methodological and substantive. Using the data from the project's first case
study, it discusses the development of the analytical procedures undertaken so far, as well as considering the preliminary findings that have emerged from these in relation to the overall research questions.
The issues raised by the reported work, it is argued, have important implications for geographical/environmental education research- in particular, the need for more work to be grounded in the practice
of classrooms, and underpinned by integrated conceptions of curriculum and pedagogy, and teaching and learning. Only then, the paper concludes, will it be possible to work towards an understanding of the
curriculum as 'the events that students and teachers jointly construct in classroom settings' (Doyle, 1992: 509).
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