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Teaching physical geography at university with cartoons and comic strips: Motivation, construction and usage
Author(s) -
Gomez Christopher
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/nzg.12053
Subject(s) - comic strip , geographer , comics , creativity , context (archaeology) , pleasure , visual arts , sociology , mathematics education , psychology , geography , art , social psychology , cartography , literature , archaeology , neuroscience
This article presents the cartoons and comic strips that the author draws and has used in his teaching of physical geography at the undergraduate level since 2011. In the context of an image‐based culture, this article discusses the pedagogic goals that cartoons and comic strips fulfil: enhancing learning and creativity, associating pleasure with learning, pushing students to think ‘outside the box’ and relating the students' learning experience to a media framework popular with students. Cartoons and comic strips also answer particular necessities related to the teaching of physical geography. Using characters placed in hypothetical situations, they explain the process of doing geography and being a physical geographer.