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: 16 Number: 4 Page: 351–366
doi:10.2167/irgee222.0
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Research article
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Searching for Strategies to Help Students to Structure Their Geographical Research Papers in a Domain Specific Way
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Hilde M. A. Wildschut and Joop A. van der Schee
Centre for Educational Training Assessment and Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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In our increasingly complex world, independent information collection is very important and with the help of modern technology this is becoming easier each day. However, it is very difficult if knowledge and training about how to structure information in a domain specific geographical way is missing. By ‘domain specific’, we mean the coherence between declarative and procedural knowledge which is specific to the way of thinking in geography. This paper presents the results of a study in which Dutch geography teachers reflect on students' research papers in the upper divisions of secondary education. The present study shows that teachers have different opinions about the necessity of a more explicit way of coaching students in geographical thinking in order to improve the geographical structure of research papers. Nevertheless, it seems worthwhile to investigate the possibility of designing a framework for geographical thinking on the quality of geography research papers.
Keywords: geography, secondary education, domain specific thinking, research skills
Copyright © 2007 H. M. A. Wildschut & J. A. van der Schee
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