Mediated Geographies Across Arizona

Motivated by a need to engage students in the critical evaluation of visual information, and by a desire to teach students how to use digital technologies as a way of exploring and expressing geographical constructs and processes, the geography departments at Arizona's three universities sought and received funding from the Arizona Board of Regents for learner-centered curricular development organized around the theme of "Mediated Geographies. " In this project, we explore how critical pedagogy and learner-centered education strategies were used to engage students in semester-long documentary and photo essay projects.

Student Documentaries

Publications

Lukinbeal, Chris, Christina B. Kennedy; John Paul Jones III; John Finn; Keith A. Woodward; David Nelson; Zane Austin Grant; Nicole Antonopoulos; Ari Palos; Carol Atkinson-Palombo. Mediated Geographies: Critical Pedagogy and Geographic Education. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 69: 31-44.

Lukinbeal, Chris, John Finn, John Paul Jones, Christina Kennedy, and Keith Woodward. 2015. Mediated Geographies Across Arizona: Learning Literacy Skills through Filmmaking. In, Mediated Geographies and Geographies of Media, Springer, Science and Business Media series, International Handbooks of Human Geography. Edited by, Susan Mains, Julie Cupples, and Chris Lukinbeal. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 401-416.

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