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The Appalachian Mountains attracted an endless stream of visitors in the twentieth century, each bearing visions of what they would encounter. Well before large numbers of tourists took to the mountains in the latter half of the century, however, networks of missionaries, sociologists, folklorists, doctors, artists, and conservationists made Appalachia their primary site for fieldwork. In Proving Ground, Edward Slavishak studies several of these interlopers to show that the travelers' tales were the foundation of powerful forms of insider knowledge. Following four individuals and one cohort as they climbed professional ladders via the Appalachian Mountains, Slavishak argues that these visitors represented occupational and recreational groups that used Appalachia to gain precious expertise. Time spent in the mountains, in the guise of work (or play that mimicked work), distinguished travelers as master problem-solvers and transformed Appalachia into a proving ground for preservationists, planners, hikers, anthropologists, and photographers. Based on archival materials from outdoors clubs, trade journals, field notes, correspondence, National Park Service records, civic promotional materials, and photographs, Proving Ground presents mountain landscapes as a fluid combination of embodied sensation, narrative fantasy, and class privilege. Touching on critical regionalism and mobility studies, this book is a boundary-pushing cultural history of expertise, an environmental history of the Appalachian Mountains, and a historical geography of spaces and places in the twentieth century.
Fieldwork (Educational method) --- Cultural geography --- Human geography --- Field instruction --- Field study (Educational method) --- Field teaching --- Field work (Educational method) --- Teaching --- Education, Cooperative --- Project method in teaching --- Appalachian Region --- Appalachia --- Appalachian Mountains Region --- Civilization.
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Fieldwork (Educational method) --- Social service --- Fieldwork. --- Research. --- Social work research --- Field instruction --- Field study (Educational method) --- Field teaching --- Field work (Educational method) --- Teaching --- Education, Cooperative --- Project method in teaching
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`A concise, common-sense and most valuable guide.' - TES `The wise LEA will use this publication to review its own guidelines and in-service training for out-of-school education, but this will be no substitute for investing in a copy for every head teacher. Without doubt, the wise head will also wish to invest in further copies for staff colleagues.' - Education `An invaluable summary of contacts in the UK.' - Safety Education
Fieldwork (Educational method) --- Outdoor education. --- Out-of-doors education --- Education --- Field instruction --- Field study (Educational method) --- Field teaching --- Field work (Educational method) --- Teaching --- Education, Cooperative --- Project method in teaching --- School excursions - Great Britain. --- School field trips --- Excursions, School --- Field trips, School --- School excursions --- School study trips --- Study trips, School --- Student activities
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Since the introduction of the iPad in 2010, tablet computers and other mobile devices have made broad inroads in education. Apple’s iPads, and devices made by Samsung, Microsoft, Lenovo, Xperia and others, including many smartphones, have risen beyond simple consumption of web and video content. Their utility is extended and multiplied by a proliferation of application programs – apps. Using a wide variety of apps, tablets now offer exceptional educational opportunities for both teacher and student. This book offers examples of the ways that mobile technologies, fuelled with a collection of apps and sparked by the leadership of a creative tutor, can significantly enhance education in general, and especially fieldwork. In a remote valley or a seminar room, done individually or in a team, fieldwork offers unrivalled opportunities for active learning. Tablets, with their high definition displays, long battery life and built-in photo, video and sound recording ability, can serve as notebooks, e-book readers and much more. Accordingly, students can develop their individual or Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) and link these with their colleagues in Group Learning Environments (GLEs). This book shows how tablets (and smartphones) using a variety of selected ‘apps’, can enhance fieldwork and other out-of-classroom activities. The authors review imaginative uses of tablets from their own project and as well as examples from other colleagues. To help readers keep abreast of new technology and innovative ways to use it, the book is supported by a web site and a social media community. The book shows how to make the most creative use of the capabilities of tablets, including: - Note taking and recording - Capturing and utilizing still images, video and sound - Data collection, sharing and processing - Mapping, geo-referencing and geotagging - Networking and communicating Much more than just a survey of rapidly developing hardware and apps, the book empowers educators to develop novel pedagogic approaches that make the most of digital technologies to enhance fieldwork teaching and learning.
Geography-General --- Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Fieldwork (Educational method) --- Educational technology. --- Technological innovations. --- Instructional technology --- Technology in education --- Field instruction --- Field study (Educational method) --- Field teaching --- Field work (Educational method) --- Geography. --- Science. --- Earth sciences. --- Life sciences. --- Education. --- Environment. --- Geography, general. --- Environment, general. --- Life Sciences, general. --- Earth Sciences, general. --- Science, general. --- Education, general. --- Technology --- Educational innovations --- Instructional systems --- Teaching --- Education, Cooperative --- Project method in teaching --- Aids and devices --- Environmental sciences. --- Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. --- Biosciences --- Sciences, Life --- Science --- Environmental science --- Cosmography --- Earth sciences --- World history --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Training --- Geosciences --- Environmental sciences --- Physical sciences --- Education --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Population biology --- Ecology
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