A Powerful Geography Approach to the Curricular Transformation of the Undergraduate Geography Program at the Universidad de Costa Rica

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dc.contributor.authorCampos, Jose Alejandro Cascante
dc.contributor.authorFlores, Isabel Avendaño
dc.contributor.authorGarcia, Victoria González
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-05T21:12:01Z
dc.date.available2023-12-05T21:12:01Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThe school of geography at the Universidad de Costa Rica started in 2015 a revision of the undergraduate geography program, ending in 2018 with the approval of a new and renewed curriculum. This process involved a "bottom-up" participatory method leaded by the "teaching committee", where faculty members, administrative staff, students, potential employers, and international external reviewers offer their knowledge, opinions, and feedback. This approach ended up in the epistemological definition of the discipline, the challenges in which geographers are called to actively participate at different scales and contexts, the objectives of the geography's undergraduate program, and the potential employment opportunities of future professionals. The committee ended up proposing the curricular structure and organization that will allow student's knowledge acquisition, and the pedagogical approach that will guide geographic learning. The purpose of this article is to analyze how powerful geography concepts and ideas can contribute to understand the changes that the school implemented in this new curriculum. In this way, we discuss on how powerful geography arguments are useful to understand the nature of the changes made to the undergraduate geography program.
dc.description.departmentGeography and Environmental Studies
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dc.format.extent15 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.citationCampos, J.A.C., Flores, I.A., & Garcia, V.G. (2018). A powerful geography approach to the curricular transformation of the undergraduate geography program at the Universidad de Costa Rica. Research in Geographic Education, 20(2), pp. 29-43.
dc.identifier.issn1529-0085
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/17360
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherThe Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education
dc.sourceResearch in Geographic Education, 2018, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 29-43.
dc.subjectgeography
dc.subjectpowerful geography
dc.subjectcurriculum
dc.subjecthigher education
dc.subjectgeography education
dc.titleA Powerful Geography Approach to the Curricular Transformation of the Undergraduate Geography Program at the Universidad de Costa Rica
dc.typeArticle

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