GEOG 122 concept mapping

geography as all around us

space is not neutral

my body is important to who I am

social institutions are made by people grounded in their own experiences/imaginations

doing/experiencing the world is learning

Who decides

Where do I belong and what determines where I belong?

How is learning happening all around me every day?

How does my geographical imagination impact how I navigate the world?

Where do I belong and what determines where I belong?

How does my geographical imagination impact how I navigate the world?

Where do I belong and what determines where I belong?

Where do I belong and what determines where I belong?

How does my geographical imagination impact how I navigate the world?

How does my geographical imagination impact how I navigate the world?

How does my geographical imagination impact how I navigate the world?

How is learning happening all around me every day?

How is learning happening all around me every day?

How is learning happening all around me every day?

Is everyone’s experience of place/where they are the same?

Is everyone’s experience of place/where they are the same?

Is everyone’s experience of place/where they are the same?

Is everyone’s experience of place/where they are the same?

Is everyone’s experience of place/where they are the same?

What are the personal and societal characteristics that form place?

What are the personal and societal characteristics that form place?

What are the personal and societal characteristics that form place?

What are the personal and societal characteristics that form place?

What larger societal processes contribute to understanding of place?

What larger societal processes contribute to understanding of place?

How does history impact on our geographical imaginations today?





Key concepts associated with this idea and key questions:

  • Emotional Geographies
  • Social characteristics
  • Geographical Imagination
  • Navigating space





Key concepts associated with this idea and key questions:

  • Dialectical place
  • Power as socially constructed
  • Social characteristics
  • Political economy
  • Social institutions



Key concepts associated with this idea and key questions:

  • Geographical imagination
  • Dialectical space
  • Navigating space
  • power as socially constructed
  • social institutions

Key concepts associated with this idea and key questions:

  • Dialectical place
  • Power as socially constructed
  • Social characteristics
  • social institutions

Key concepts associated with this idea and key questions:

  • geographical imagination
  • navigating space

Key concepts associated with this idea and key questions:

  • geographical imagination
  • dialectical place
  • navigating space

Students will need to question the world around them and their own experiences of being in the world - what is truth? What is socially constructed? Whose view? Whose history? Whose politics? Bring their own experiences into the classroom and learning. Have an open mind to new experiences.