Basic Science Course (NV)
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IND's studenterserie nr. 74. Specialerapport. Geografi og Geoinformatik.
Aputsiaq Bent Simonsen, 2019.
Vejleder: Robert Harry Evans
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to study students' transition from Geography in primary school, through the basic science course (NV) and to Physical Geography in high school, in order to gain a better insight into the students’ preferences in relation to teaching. Furthermore, a suggestion on how this knowledge of these preferences can be used by physical geography teachers in their NV teaching to make the transition from primary school to physical geography in high school better for the students. This was done through a study of 104 newly started students' experience of this particular transition at the beginning of the school year 2018/2019. The results of the study show, among other things, that the students' relation to the teachers is very important and can have a positive as well as a negative influence on their experience of a subject. In addition, the study shows that the NV course can feel very compact and intense for the students. It also shows that the students like group work and experimental work, and that the use of visual aids in the teaching is appreciated among the students and preferred over what can be called static teaching material. These preferences are used to make concrete suggestions for what Physical Geography teachers can do in their teaching in the NV course, to make the transition from Geography in primary school to Physical Geography in high school better for the students. The data in the study was collected using questionnaires and interviews with students, over a period of 2½ months, and these are compared with previous studies on school-student transition from primary school to high school. The data processing is done via a mixed-method approach with thematic analysis and statistical analyzes of the data set.