Ihave just been water sampling along the River Tees with one of our PhD students. She cannot tell her left hand from her right but she can read a map. Being able to read a map seems to me to be a good place to start when thinking about how geographers think and learn, but there is more to it than that.
This Snapshot was prompted by an article in the American journal Eos entitled ‘How geoscientists think and learn’ by Kim Kastens and others (Vol. 90, No. 31, 4 August 2009). It got me thinking. Their four headings are worth repeating in the context of studying geography.
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