Approach to students’ social representations in the construction of academic European geography: A case study of Spanish university students
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2017
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Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe
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This article provides the results of classroom research involving university students training to be secondary
school teachers of geography and history. The research is based on the analysis of a word association test on Europe
and the European Union. The results constitute an approach to the geographical and historical representations these
students have of their own European continent. This is a fundamental question considering that this collective group
is training to teach the contents and values of European geography in secondary school education. From here on, our
intention is no other than to carry out an exercise of synthesis and overall reflection on the test results and introduce
issues which could generate some debate in the educational community.
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academic geography of Europe, teacher training for secondary education, social representations, test of word association
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 36 (4), 2017, pp. 159-170
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0137-477X