Journal of Geography in Higher Education
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The Journal of Geography in Higher Education (JGHE) is a leading journal published by Taylor & Francis committed to the advancement of geography L&T in HE
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🎨📚 New paper shows how tredje uppgiften (the duty to share research publicly) turns curation into a powerful pedagogical tool. By curating an exhibition on ethnographic methods, the authors found that curation prompts reflexivity and deepens understanding of the research process.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
🎨📚 New paper shows how tredje uppgiften (the duty to share research publicly) turns curation into a powerful pedagogical tool. By curating an exhibition on ethnographic methods, the authors found that curation prompts reflexivity and deepens understanding of the research process.
🧭📊 A new study applied the Spatial Thinking Ability Test (STAT). Results showed overall low spatial thinking skills and little variation across levels or genders—highlighting the need to use STAT-guided assessments to strengthen these skills.
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Using the STAT to formulate Geography assessment questions: a case study of undergraduate Geography students from selected South African universities
Lee and Bednarz (2012) developed the spatial thinking ability test (STAT) to determine a person’s spatial thinking abilities. The STAT has been used in research projects but few of these projects f...
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December 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🧭📊 A new study applied the Spatial Thinking Ability Test (STAT). Results showed overall low spatial thinking skills and little variation across levels or genders—highlighting the need to use STAT-guided assessments to strengthen these skills.
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📘🌍 New paper reflects on teaching political economic theory in human geography. A third-semester MSc course helps students navigate competing paradigms and apply economic theory in geographic research, while highlighting key pedagogical challenges.
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November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📘🌍 New paper reflects on teaching political economic theory in human geography. A third-semester MSc course helps students navigate competing paradigms and apply economic theory in geographic research, while highlighting key pedagogical challenges.
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💻 New study analyzed virtual field trips created with tools like ArcGIS Online, Google Maps & Genially. Findings reveal wide variation in design, quality & interaction—offering criteria to guide more effective, engaging digital fieldwork
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October 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
💻 New study analyzed virtual field trips created with tools like ArcGIS Online, Google Maps & Genially. Findings reveal wide variation in design, quality & interaction—offering criteria to guide more effective, engaging digital fieldwork
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💻 New study applies hybrid teaching in an intro GIS course—combining VR, flipped classrooms & digital tools to tackle tough topics like datums & map projections. Findings show blended methods boost engagement & guide future GIS course design.
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October 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
💻 New study applies hybrid teaching in an intro GIS course—combining VR, flipped classrooms & digital tools to tackle tough topics like datums & map projections. Findings show blended methods boost engagement & guide future GIS course design.
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📍📚 New study explores the experiences of non-tenure track faculty (NTTF) in U.S. geography. Focus groups reveal diverse roles, heavy workloads & barriers to inclusion—but also offer concrete steps for departments to create more equitable, supportive structures
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Non-tenure track faculty in U.S. geography: strategies for support
This article examines the experiences of non-tenure track faculty (NTTF) in geography in U.S. higher educational institutions. While research on NTTF is growing, very little information has been co...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:28 AM
📍📚 New study explores the experiences of non-tenure track faculty (NTTF) in U.S. geography. Focus groups reveal diverse roles, heavy workloads & barriers to inclusion—but also offer concrete steps for departments to create more equitable, supportive structures
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📖 New resources paper shows how bringing printed atlases back into regional geography courses boosted student performance. Despite reliance on digital maps, atlases proved powerful tools for building geographical literacy.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
📖 New resources paper shows how bringing printed atlases back into regional geography courses boosted student performance. Despite reliance on digital maps, atlases proved powerful tools for building geographical literacy.
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📚 New paper introduces holistic bricolage as a doctoral research approach. Showcased through disaster risk reduction research in the Azores, it highlights benefits, barriers, and the need for supportive institutional frameworks.
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October 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
📚 New paper introduces holistic bricolage as a doctoral research approach. Showcased through disaster risk reduction research in the Azores, it highlights benefits, barriers, and the need for supportive institutional frameworks.
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🗺️New study explores educational benefits of Participatory GIS (PGIS) through a campus accessibility project. Findings show PGIS builds tech & content knowledge, fosters awareness of positionality, and empowers participants with localized, place-based insights.
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October 9, 2025 at 11:14 AM
🗺️New study explores educational benefits of Participatory GIS (PGIS) through a campus accessibility project. Findings show PGIS builds tech & content knowledge, fosters awareness of positionality, and empowers participants with localized, place-based insights.
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🗺️🤖 This new JGHE paper proposes an LLM-based framework for generating GIS question banks. Tackles gaps in knowledge coverage, difficulty balance & adaptability - creating personalised, professional tools to support GIS learning & teaching.
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October 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
🗺️🤖 This new JGHE paper proposes an LLM-based framework for generating GIS question banks. Tackles gaps in knowledge coverage, difficulty balance & adaptability - creating personalised, professional tools to support GIS learning & teaching.
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📚 A new study of undergrad & grad students during COVID-19 reveals how the pandemic layered onto housing, food & mental health insecurities. Students built mutual support networks, pointing to the need for systemic institutional solutions in higher ed.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
📚 A new study of undergrad & grad students during COVID-19 reveals how the pandemic layered onto housing, food & mental health insecurities. Students built mutual support networks, pointing to the need for systemic institutional solutions in higher ed.
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🗺️ This new paper in JGHE explores a semester-long GIS course with pre-service teachers which boosted both GIS knowledge & creative thinking in mapping. Findings show integrating creativity into GIS education strengthens skills & supports teacher development.
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October 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
🗺️ This new paper in JGHE explores a semester-long GIS course with pre-service teachers which boosted both GIS knowledge & creative thinking in mapping. Findings show integrating creativity into GIS education strengthens skills & supports teacher development.
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🗺️🤝 New JGHE paper shares lessons from a community-engaged GIS course. Students built tech skills and reflected on privilege, power & equity - showing how GIS can both empower & disempower, and how CEL fosters civic-minded, reciprocal learning.
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October 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🗺️🤝 New JGHE paper shares lessons from a community-engaged GIS course. Students built tech skills and reflected on privilege, power & equity - showing how GIS can both empower & disempower, and how CEL fosters civic-minded, reciprocal learning.
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🌍New study explores how future planners feel about territory. Students value cultural/aesthetic ties, express concern for biodiversity, yet engage little with planning. Calls for curricula that deepen emotional connections to guide sustainable decisions.
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October 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
🌍New study explores how future planners feel about territory. Students value cultural/aesthetic ties, express concern for biodiversity, yet engage little with planning. Calls for curricula that deepen emotional connections to guide sustainable decisions.
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🎬🌏 New paper reflects on co-teaching urban geography & media studies with film to explore DEI. It highlights interdisciplinary, intercultural & intersectional praxes - challenging Eurocentrism, fostering empathy, and calling for anti-racist Asian geographies.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🎬🌏 New paper reflects on co-teaching urban geography & media studies with film to explore DEI. It highlights interdisciplinary, intercultural & intersectional praxes - challenging Eurocentrism, fostering empathy, and calling for anti-racist Asian geographies.
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🖥️ New study uses 3D VR 360° panoramas to teach topographic mapping. Students found the virtual environment practical, clear & motivating which helped them visualize terrain, plan surveys, and select points before fieldwork.
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Virtual reality 360° panoramic technology to support topographic mapping tasks
This article describes the creation of a topographic map using 3D Virtual Reality 360° panoramic technology in a VR low immersion desktop environment as a supplement to traditional surveying method...
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September 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
🖥️ New study uses 3D VR 360° panoramas to teach topographic mapping. Students found the virtual environment practical, clear & motivating which helped them visualize terrain, plan surveys, and select points before fieldwork.
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🛰️🗺️ New paper on KMapper (KIGAM’s digital field survey tool): shows how integrating geoscience & GIS boosts fieldwork, and proposes a digital competence framework to help researchers build the skills needed for effective digital field surveys.
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September 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🛰️🗺️ New paper on KMapper (KIGAM’s digital field survey tool): shows how integrating geoscience & GIS boosts fieldwork, and proposes a digital competence framework to help researchers build the skills needed for effective digital field surveys.
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Welcome to our new JGHE BlueSky page! We will be sharing new content here and building up our presence. Please do give us a follow and share with your colleagues interested in all things geography and higher education teaching and learning 🌎
September 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Welcome to our new JGHE BlueSky page! We will be sharing new content here and building up our presence. Please do give us a follow and share with your colleagues interested in all things geography and higher education teaching and learning 🌎
📚✍️ Can geography be told through stories? A new paper reveals how creative writing in classrooms enhances students' creativity, writing skills, and understanding of geographic themes like home and belonging.
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September 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
📚✍️ Can geography be told through stories? A new paper reveals how creative writing in classrooms enhances students' creativity, writing skills, and understanding of geographic themes like home and belonging.
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