Revisiting the Role of Values and Attitudes in Geographic Education: The use of ethnographic methodology and materials

Abstract

This article is a contribution to the current debate about the nature and content of geography teaching. It challenges the notion that the study of attitudes and values in geographical education imposes values upon the learners. It shows how ethnographic methodology developed from the existing geographical concept of the behavioural environment, which emphasised the importance of studying attitudes and values. It demonstrates a more nuanced approach to the understanding of people—environment relations using an ethnographic case study of management issues in a wetland environment at Lake Kerkini in Greece. By using direct evidence from the people involved, ethnographic studies allow students to access information about and consider the significance of attitudes and values in different cultural environments.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 3 citations exist upstream.

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.