'Enlivening' development concepts through workshops: A case study of appropriate technology and soil conservation

Journal of Geography in Higher Education

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 75-86

  Jones, Samantha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Appropriate technology; Development geography; Soil and water conservation; Workshops

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; TEACHING;

EID: 0034126398     PISSN: 03098265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03098260085144     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. BANNISTER, M.E. & NAIR, P.K.R. (1990) Alley cropping as a sustainable agricultural technology for the hillsides of Haiti: Experience of an agroforestry outreach project, American Journal of Alternative Agriculture, 5 (2), pp. 51-59.
2. BURKILL, S. (1997) Student empowerment through group work: a case study, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 21 (1), pp. 89-94.
3. CALDWELL, J. (1978) Theory of fertility: from high plateau to destabilisation, Population and Development Review, 4, (4), pp. 553-577.
4. CHAPMAN, G.P. (1992) Doing is learning: teaching development studies by the next best experience, in: R.B. POTTER & T. UNWIN (Eds) Teaching the Geography of Developing Areas, DARG Monograph No 7 (London, Institute of British Geographers).
5. CLARKE, G. & WAREHAM, T. (1998) Small Group Teaching in Geography, Geography Discipline Network (GDN) (Cheltenham, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education).
6. FLOWERDEW, R. & MARTIN, D. (1997) Methods in Human Geography (Harlow, Longman).
7. GIDDENS, A. (1984) The Constitution of Society: outline of the theory of structuration (Cambridge, Polity Press).
8. GOLD, J.R., JENKINS, A., LEE, R., MONK, J., RILEY, J., SHEPHERD, I. & UNWIN, D. (1991) Teaching Geography in Higher Education: a manual of good practice (Oxford, Basil Blackwell).
9. HARRISON, M.E. (1995) Images of the Third World: teaching a geography of the Third World, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 19 (3), pp. 285-297.
10. HEALEY, M. (1998) Resource-based Learning in Geography, Geography Discipline Network (GDN), (Cheltenham, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education).
11. HEALEY, M., MATTHEWS, H. LIVINGSTONE, I. & FOSTER, I. (1996) Learning in small groups in university geography courses: designing a core module around group projects, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 20 (2), pp. 175-180.
12. HINDLE, B.P. (1993) The 'Project': putting student-controlled, small-group work and transferable skills at the core of a geography course, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 17 (1), pp. 11-20.
13. JENKINS, A. (1998) Curriculum Design in Geography, Geography Discipline Network (GDN), (Cheltenham, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education).
14. JONES, S.J. (1995) Deconstructing the degradation debate: a study of land degradation in the Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania, unpublished PhD thesis. School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich.
15. KASSOGNE, A. with DOLO, J. & PONSIOEN, T. (1990) Traditional Soil and Water Conservation on the Dogon Plateau, Mali, International Institute for Environment and Development, Issues Paper No 23, Drylands Network Programme (London, IIED).
16. LONG, N. & LONG, A. (1992) Battlefields of Knowledge: the interlocking of theory and practice in social research and development (London, Routledge).
17. MILLINGTON, T. (1982) Soil conservation techniques for the humid tropics, Appropriate Technology, 19 (2), pp. 17-18.
18. NUBERG, I.K. & EVANS, D.G. (1993) Alley cropping and analog forests for soil conservation in the dry uplands of Sri Lanka, Agroforestry Systems, 24, pp. 247-269.
19. PADILLA, H. (1992) High and stable crop yields: the Bontoc rice terraces, in: W. HIEMSTRA, C. REIJNTJES & E. VAN DER WERF (Eds) Let Farmers Judge: experiences in assessing the sustainability of agriculture, pp. 143-149 (London, Intermediate Technology Publications).
20. POTTER, R. & UNWIN, T. (1992) Teaching the geography of developing areas: an introduction, in: R.B. POTTER & T. UNWIN (Eds) Teaching the Geography of Developing Areas, DARG Monograph No 7 (London, Institute of British Geographers).
21. SHULTZ, E.B. (1990) Directions: views on the meaning of appropriate technology, in: R.W. STEVENS, Appropriate Technology (London, Intermediate Technology Publications).
22. TIFFEN, M., MORTIMORE, M. & GICHUKI, F. (1994) More People, Less Erosion: environmental recovery in Kenya (Chichester, Wiley).
23. WARDURTON, J. & MADGE, C. (1994) The snakes and ladders of research: using a board game to teach the pitfalls of undergraduate research design. Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 18 (2) pp. 237-244.