Revisiting the Role of Values and Attitudes in Geographic Education: The use of ethnographic methodology and materials
Year: 2006
Type: article
Abstract: This article is a contribution to the current debate about the nature and content of geography teaching. It challenges the notion that the study of attitudes and values in geographical education imposes values upon the learners. It shows how ethnographic methodology developed from the existing geographical concept of the behavioural environment, which emphasised the importance of studying attitudes and values. It demonstrates a more nuanced approach to the understanding of people—environment relations using an ethnographic case study of management issues in a wetland environment at Lake Kerkini in Greece. By using direct evidence from the people involved, ethnographic studies allow students to access information about and consider the significance of attitudes and values in different cultural environments.
Source: Geography
Authors: Brian Ellis, Joanna Birch
Institutions: University of Warwick, University of Sheffield
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1560047067