Geography education: The glass is half full and it's getting fuller

Professional Geographer

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 22-27

  Bednarz, Robert S ^a   Bednarz, Sarah Witham ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Geography education; K 12 education; Spatial thinking and reasoning

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1442312656     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0033-0124.2004.05601004.x     Document Type: Article

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