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Thinking Geographically?: Secondary Teachers’ Curriculum Thinking on Geographical Analysis when Using Subject-Specific Digital Tools
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Educational Studies (from 2013). Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Centre for the Studies of Social Sciences Didactics (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8718-740x
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Centre for the Studies of Social Sciences Didactics (from 2013). Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0786-6977
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Pedagogical Work
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Educational Work
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-86122OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-86122DiVA, id: diva2:1600809
Available from: 2021-10-05 Created: 2021-10-05 Last updated: 2021-10-06Bibliographically approved
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1. Att tänka geografiskt i en digital undervisningsmiljö: En studie av högstadielärares kunskapsbas och användning av digitala verktyg i geografiundervisningen
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Att tänka geografiskt i en digital undervisningsmiljö: En studie av högstadielärares kunskapsbas och användning av digitala verktyg i geografiundervisningen
2021 (Swedish)Licentiate thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Alternative title[sv]
Geographical thinking in a digital teaching and learning environment : A study of secondary teachers' knowledge base and use of digital tools in geography education
Abstract [en]

This compilation licentiate thesis focuses on geography teaching in a digital teaching and learning environment in the Swedish secondary school. Departing from a subject-didactic perspective, the aim was to explore the relation between teachers’ knowledge base, choices and usage of digital tools and geography teaching. The preconditions to develop students geographical thinking has been of specific interest. The thesis consists of two joint studies: a regional survey (n=47) and a case study based on workshops. The results from the first study formed a basis for the design of the second study. The study draws on theories on teachers’ knowledge base, pedagogical content knowledge and TPACK. 

The first study focused on teachers’ view of what secondary geography education implies in a digital teaching and learning environment. The second study explored secondary social science teachers’ curriculum thinking when constructing lesson plans containing geographical analyses with subject-specific digital tools (SSDT).

The results reveal that handling geographical analysis in geography education stand out as a complex content that challenges teachers’ professional management competence. The usage of digital tools and SSDTs, such as GIS, varies. Subject specific games are commonly used in geography teaching. However, SSDTs that provide great amount of geographical data, for instance GIS, are not as commonly used. Moreover, results from the second study indicate that most participating teachers engaged in geographical thinking when planning their lessons, but there is an imbedded difficulty regarding transforming such thinking into student instructions. Also, integrating the SSDTs in the lesson plans proved to be challenging for some of the teachers. This implies developing each knowledge aspect is crucial alongside developing an integration of the knowledge aspects.

Abstract [sv]

Den här studien utgår från ett ämnesdidaktiskt perspektiv och undersöker relationen mellan högstadielärares kunskapsbas, val och användning av digitala verktyg och geografiundervisning. Två delstudier ligger till grund för studiens resultat. Den första delstudien består av en regional enkätstudie med SO-lärare i årskurserna 7-9, vilken undersöker lärarnas val och användning av digitala verktyg i geografiundervisningen. Resultaten från den första delstudien gav underlag och uppslag för hur nästa delstudie skulle designas. Den andra delstudien är utformad som en fallstudie, och baseras på workshops med en grupp högstadielärare. Den fokuserar på lärares planering av undervisningen där elever får göra geografiska analyser med hjälp av ämnesspecifika digitala verktyg (ÄSDV) i syfte att utveckla det geografiska tänkandet. Studien vilar på teorier om lärares kunskapsbas, TPACK och ett geografididaktiskt forskningstema, geografiskt tänkande. Resultaten visar att geografiska analyser är ett komplext ämnesinnehåll och därmed även ett utmanande inslag i geografiundervisningen. Överlag används digitala verktyg i undervisningen men ÄSDV som innehåller stor mängd geografiska data (t. ex. geografiska informationssystem), används i markant lägre utsträckning. Studien visar även att integrationen mellan olika aspekter i lärarens kunskapsbas är central för att genomföra en undervisning som utvecklar geografiskt tänkande med hjälp av digitala verktyg.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Karlstad: Karlstads universitet, 2021. p. 113
Series
Karlstad University Studies, ISSN 1403-8099 ; 2021:28
Keywords
Geography education, geographical thinking, geographical analyses, digital tools, subject-specific digital tools, teachers’ knowledge base, TPACK, didactical model, geografididaktik, geografiskt tänkande, geografiska analyser, digitala verktyg, ämnesspecifika digitala verktyg, lärares kunskapsbas, TPACK, didaktisk modell
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Pedagogical Work
Research subject
Educational Work
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-86072 (URN)978-91-7867-233-2 (ISBN)978-91-7867-244-8 (ISBN)
Presentation
2021-11-12, 9C204, Karlstads universitet, Karlstad, 13:00 (Swedish)
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Available from: 2021-11-05 Created: 2021-10-05 Last updated: 2023-06-20Bibliographically approved

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