Geography, School and Newspapers

UV tanning advertisements in high school newspapers.

OBJECTIVE To examine the increasing use of UV tanning parlors by adolescents, despite the World Health Organization recommendation that no one under the age of 18 years use UV tanning devices. DESIGN We examined tanning advertisements in a sample of public high school newspapers published between 2001 and 2005 in 3 Colorado counties encompassing the Denver metropolitan area. RESULTS Tanning...

A Law and Geography Perspective on the New Haven School

Geography and sustainable development

        To overcome these problems in 1978 the Brandtland report   announced the sustainable development as not to spend resources more than the nature’s production capacity and not to pollute the nature more than it can assimilate. In other words, the nature should remain in its sustainable state so that the future generations can live with no limitations. The principles of the sustainable dev...

Activity-based Learning in Secondary School Geography Lessons in Turkey: A Study from Geography Teachers’ Perspective

The purpose of this article is to evaluate the type and frequency of in-and out-of-school activities implemented in secondary school geography lessons in Turkey. A questionnaire survey was prepared and distributed to 150 geography teachers who participated in an in-service education organized by the Ministry of National Education in 2009. Eighty-one teachers responded to the twenty-four questio...

Imagined Country: National Environmental Ideologies in School Geography Textbooks