| Description |
1 online resource (173 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Historical Geography Series |
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Routledge Research in Historical Geography Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About the Author -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Who actually makes the history of geography? -- Student-geographers: producers or consumers of geographical knowledge? -- Dissertations as intellectual, cultural, and social source material -- The identity, or identities, of geography -- Exploring the history of geography through hundreds of geography students -- Intermezzo 1: New Towns -- Bibliography |
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Chapter 2: The history of geography and educational practices -- The wider context of British higher education -- The history and future of dissertations -- Dissertations as learning tool or assessment tool -- The role of the supervisor -- The broader departmental and intellectual network -- Increasing explicit governance of the dissertation process -- The dissertation and the curriculum -- Dissertations and authorship -- Conclusion -- Intermezzo 2: Outdoor Recreation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Spatial contexts of student knowledge production: The expanded geographical field |
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The geographies of undergraduate dissertations -- Study areas in Scotland -- Study areas in the rest of the UK -- International study areas -- Emergence of the microscale: biographies, bodies, and bothies -- Going into the field -- The practicalities of fieldwork -- Assistance and help in the field -- Field expeditions -- Conclusion -- Intermezzo 3: Rural Depopulation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Becoming a geographer: Dissertations as intellectual source material -- One undergraduate degree with two distinguished pillars -- Recent bridges between human and physical geography |
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Subdisciplinary shifts -- Geomorphology: describing landscapes, modelling landscapes, or explaining landscapes? -- The explosion of social and cultural geography from the mid-1990s -- Conclusion -- Intermezzo 4: Social Justice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: Geographical traditions versus innovations: Students as drivers of disciplinary change -- Disciplinary awareness -- The cohort of 1998: disciplinary awareness and conceptual framing -- Conceptual frameworks -- Regional geography -- Spatial Science -- Marxist geographies -- Humanistic geographies -- Other conceptual frameworks |
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Conclusion -- Intermezzo 5: Medical/Health Geographies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Exploring the skills of geographers-in-the-making -- Methods of data collection -- Observing -- Measuring -- Counting -- Asking -- Mixed methods approach -- Methods of data analysis -- Structuring, categorising, and calculating data -- Statistical analysis -- Coding -- Mapping landscapes versus modelling landscapes -- Methods and research design frameworks -- Ethics and positionality -- Graphicacy as the geographical skill -- Maps -- Photographs -- Diagrams -- Conclusion -- Intermezzo 6: Commuting |
| Summary |
This book examines the history of geography (1950-2020) from a bottom-up perspective |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Notes |
| Subject |
Discoveries in geography -- History
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Geography -- Study and teaching (Graduate)
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Dissertations, Academic
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Discoveries in geography.
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Dissertations, Academic.
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Geography -- Study and teaching (Graduate)
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000969795 |
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1000969797 |
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