Intellectual Resilience – Draft of a New Educational Approach for the Geography Classroom
- Author(s)
- Daniel Raithofer, Christiane Hintermann
- Abstract
Major crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic put societies to the test. The conjuncture of globalization, with all its challenging transformation processes, social inequality, and the epidemic spread of a new (viral) pathogen has fuelled feelings of uncertainty and insecurity in virtually every part of society, on a global scale. Focusing on learners, this paper proposes ‘intellectual resilience’ as a new educational concept aiming to empower learners to more fully comprehend and navigate global crises. An intellectually resilient person is defined as someone who can use multiple scientific approaches and concepts in a participative, democratically informed way. The aim is to explore the potential of school geography education to support young learners in handling crisis situations.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Geography and Regional Research, Department for Teacher Education
- Journal
- GI-Forum: journal for geographic information science
- Volume
- 9
- Pages
- 45-53
- No. of pages
- 8
- ISSN
- 2308-1708
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1553/giscience2021_02_s45
- Publication date
- 12-2021
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 503014 Subject didactics of social sciences, 507017 Social geography, 503020 Media education, 503033 Political education
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computers in Earth Sciences, Geography, Planning and Development, Education, Computer Science Applications
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/d78fffe5-c566-4539-a297-49fad8fa13d9