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Fieldwork is a very distinctive feature of geography and is integral to the teaching and learning of geography (Gold et al. in Teaching Geography in Higher Education. Blackwell, Oxford, 1991; Kent et al. in Journal of Geography in Higher Education 21:313–332, 1997). The field has been defined by Lonergan and Andersen (Higher Education Research and Development 7:63–77, 1988, p. *) as any place “where supervised learning can take place via first-hand experience outside the constraints of the four-walls classroom setting”. Fieldwork refers to the carrying out of an investigative work at a field site to achieve some learning outcomes. It requires the students to be physically present at the field site and actively doing something at the field site to find out more about the site. Its primary goal is to enable students to gain a direct experience and acquire the knowledge in the field while out of the classroom.
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Tan, G.C.I. (2017). Reconceptualising Experiential Learning in the Pre-service Geography Fieldwork Module. In: Tan, OS., Liu, WC., Low, EL. (eds) Teacher Education in the 21st Century. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3386-5_9
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