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Fieldwork Scenarios - effective and inclusive practice. Prof Derek France, University of Chester. Postgraduates who teach GEES, Edinburgh, March 2013. Setup. Please organise your table into a working group Each group should consist of (where possible) Earth Scientists
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Fieldwork Scenarios -effective and inclusive practice Prof Derek France, University of Chester Postgraduates who teach GEES, Edinburgh, March 2013
Setup • Please organise your table into a working group Each group should consist of (where possible) • Earth Scientists • Environmental Scientists • Geographer • Workshop facilitator • Get away from other groups, look excited and expectant.. and take a deep breath….
Dilemmas and Decisions • Each group will need to nominate a chair person (keep on task), timekeeper (keep to time), artist(s) and narrator(s). • In an envelope is your scenario. Keep it private from other groups. • The narrators will read out the scenarios and your group will discuss the dilemma. • The artists will summarise the dilemmas pictorially on the flip chart paper. • Represent your solutions pictorially on the flip chart paper and prepare to share your findings with the whole group.
Action Plan • What do you need to find out? • What are you going to do next? • What 3 things things are you going to feedback to other postgraduates?
Additional Information • John R. Gold, Alan Jenkins, Roger Lee, Janice Monk, Judith Riley, Ifan Shepherd, David Unwin (1991) TEACHING GEOGRAPHY IN HIGHER EDUCATION: A Manual of Good Practice Available http://www2.glos.ac.uk/gdn/gold/index.htm • Hall, T., Healey, M., & Harrison, M. (2004). Fieldwork and disabled students: discourses of exclusion and inclusion. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 28(2), 255-280. • Kent, M., Gilbertson, D.D. & Hunt, C.O. (1997) Fieldwork in geography teaching: a critical review of the literature and approaches, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 21(3), pp. 313-332. • Maskall, J., & Stokes, A. (2008) Designing Effective Fieldwork for the Environmental and Natural Sciences. Available at http://www.gees.ac.uk/pubs/guides/fw2/GEESfwGuide.pdf • Mistry, J., White, F., & Berardi, A. (2009). Skills at Master's Level in Geography Higher Education: Teaching, Learning and Applying. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 33(1), 123-148. • Planet Special Edition No. 3 (April 2002) “Special Educational Needs and Disabilities: Learning and teaching guidance for Geography, Earth & Environmental Sciences”http://www.gees.ac.uk/pubs/planet/senda.pdf • Winsor, S., and France, D. (2008) Fieldwork Safety: A Resource Guide Briefing on BS8848. GEES Subject Centre and Experiential Learning CETL. http://www.gees.ac.uk/pubs/other/BS8848BriefFeb2608.doc