Learning to see landscape through a flexible lens

From: The Journal of Geography | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

Students' established conclusions about the world can often hinder a teacher's efforts to suggest new ideas and new ways to pursue alternative explanations. Flexible thinking helps students practice the value that one's present conclusions should remain tentative and subject to re-evaluation. Meinig's ten alternative perspectives for seeing a landscape were used successfully as a pedagogical rubric to teach students experientially how to observe more attentively and think more flexibly about place.

Key words: cultural landscape, pedagogy, experiential

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