Readers are encouraged to send in their comments on papers in this section to Phil Gravestock (pgravestock@glos.ac.uk). Points made will be added to these pages along, where appropriate, with the author's replies.

 

Topics:	Learning Cycles and Learning Styles
	Developing the Scholarship of Teaching Geography in Higher Education
	International Perspectives on Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education

Learning Cycles and Learning Styles

This section of the GDN Discussion Papers addresses the question of the suitability of learning cycles and learning styles. The main focus is on Kolb's experiential learning theory. The section contains two papers. The first, by Mick Healey and Alan Jenkins, reviews the main features of Kolb's theory and discusses how it can be applied in geography in higher education. The second paper, by David Robotham, presents a critical review of learning style theory with particular reference to Kolb's theory.

Readers are invited to send their comments on these two papers to Phil Gravestock for adding to the GDN Web pages.

	Learning cycles and learning styles: Kolb's experiential learning theory and its application in geography in higher education Mick Healey (Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education) and Alan Jenkins (Oxford Brookes University Comment
	The application of learning style theory in higher education teaching David Robotham (Wolverhampton University)

Developing the Scholarship of Teaching Geography in Higher Education

Developing the scholarship of teaching geography in higher education Mick Healey, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education, UK Comment

International Perspectives on Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education

The set of Discussion Papers prepared for the Internet Discussion on "International Perspectives on Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education", also fit the aims of this section of the GDN pages. These papers were written for a pre-symposium meeting of the Association of American Geographers' (AAG) Annual Conference, which took place on 23 March 1999. Although the discussion and comments were used primarily to inform the pre-symposium debate, we are still interested in collecting comments on these papers.

• Developing an international educational network for geography in higher education (Iain Hay/Ken Foote/Mick Healey)
• Internationalising geography in higher education: towards a conceptual framework (Jan Monk/Ifan Shepherd/Joos Droogleever Fortuijn)
• Delivering courses internationally (Susan Hardwick/Karen Kemp/Teresa Ploszajska/Derek Reeve)
• Geography teaching in higher education: quality, assessment and accountability (Brian Chalkley/Eric Fournier /David Hill/Betina Aten)
• International perspectives on fieldcourses (Karen Nairn/Don Rambadt/Dominique Vanneste/David Higgitt)
• International perspectives on Virtual fieldcourses (John Stainfield/Peter Fisher/Bob Ford/Michael Solem)
• International perspectives on teaching geography through information technology (Bob Bednarz/Dave Rich/Geoff Robinson)
• Internationalising geography in higher education: lessons from the experience of school geography (Sue Burkill/Eleanor Rawling/Sarah Bednarz/John Lidstone)

Please send your comments to Phil Gravestock.