TY - JOUR
T1 - Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days
T2 - Helping Teach the National Geography Standards
AU - Donaldson, Daniel P.
AU - Kuhlke, Olaf
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Consistent with developments in American education pedagogy, geography educators have made great strides exploring a wide range of high- and low-tech methods for teaching and learning geographic concepts. This article draws on a qualitative analysis of essays in which college students discuss tenets of the National Geography Standards in the context of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. Most of the students in this study reported that not only did their knowledge of the world increase after completing the course assignment but that their interest in the discipline increased as well.
AB - Consistent with developments in American education pedagogy, geography educators have made great strides exploring a wide range of high- and low-tech methods for teaching and learning geographic concepts. This article draws on a qualitative analysis of essays in which college students discuss tenets of the National Geography Standards in the context of Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. Most of the students in this study reported that not only did their knowledge of the world increase after completing the course assignment but that their interest in the discipline increased as well.
KW - Geography education
KW - Jules Verne
KW - Literature
KW - Qualitative analysis
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U2 - 10.1080/00221340902945958
DO - 10.1080/00221340902945958
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78049318301
SN - 0022-1341
VL - 108
SP - 39
EP - 46
JO - Journal of Geography
JF - Journal of Geography
IS - 2
ER -