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: 9 Number: 3 Page: 223–244
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Postgraduate Primary Education Students' Images of Geography and the Relationship between these and Students' Teaching
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Fran Martin
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This article reports the results of research conducted with a group of postgraduate primary education students in an urban higher education institution in the United Kingdom. The purpose of the research
was to examine students' images of geography and to see whether these affected them as teachers of primary geography both in terms of what they chose to teach and how they chose to teach it. The Personal
Construct Psychology technique of Repertory Grid was used to elicit the students' personal images of geography. These were then compared with the image portrayed during teaching, and with the students'
teaching styles. The findings indicate that there was little relationship between the students' pre-course image of geography and that portrayed in their teaching. Tentative conclusions suggest that for
these students, whether novices in terms of the subject or not, all are reduced to the state of novice when it comes to teaching geography in primary schools.
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