Open AccessUsing Lotus Blossom Strategy in Geography
Author(s) -
Olga Chiș
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
romanian review of geographical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2285-939X
DOI - 10.23741/rrge120222
Subject(s) - lotus , diagram , creativity , representation (politics) , table (database) , computer science , process (computing) , lotus effect , information retrieval , data mining , psychology , social psychology , botany , database , politics , political science , law , biology , operating system , raw material , chemistry , organic chemistry
"This research analyses the way in which the Lotus Blossom technique has beendescribed and used worldwide, including Romania and it investigates several waysto apply it based on the geographic content. Based on analysing the way thistechnique was applied it has been found that it may be applied to various topics,both individually and in groups, depending on the geography teacher’s expertise,creativity, skills and employed methodology. During the organised activities, LotusBlossom was used to highlight and develop the most relevant subtopics on a topic,this process being also applied as an activity of introducing and assessing students’knowledge, of extracting, evaluating, selecting, and synthesising information fromvarious sources while systematising them by visual representation (diagram ortable). During an activity in which students were asked to solve a problem(“Christmas Market”), Lotus Blossom was used head-on to break down the probleminto “smaller” sub-problems or tasks, to identify or discover them, and to furtheranalyse and split them in order to be able to solve them punctually. In this case,the Lotus Blossom strategy can be compared to the Kaoru Ishikawa diagram."