What is the value of fieldwork? Answers from New Zealand using two contrasting undergraduate physical geography field trips

New Zealand Geographer

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 215-220

  Fuller, Ian C ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Fieldwork; Physical geography; Student learning; Value

Indexed keywords

FIELDWORK; GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION; LEARNING; PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY; STUDENT;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 33750474131     PISSN: 00288144     EISSN: 17457939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-7939.2006.00072.x     Document Type: Article

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