Exploring New Methods for Teaching and Learning Human Geography

This book proposes a new and central teaching concept "we are all makers" and innovates the geographical teaching modes and methodology. Geography teaching, especially how to teach geographical thinking, is important and related to the development of the discipline. In this field, the exploration of new teaching methods in non-English speaking countries and regions still needs to grow. Based on the author's experience of teaching geographical thinking and human (cultural) geography for more than ten years, the book links geographical thinking to the realistic cases with new social media tools such as WeChat APP and blog. Under the guidance of these new methods, such as poem, emotional, couplet game, keywords, blog-based teaching, and the like, students are transformed from passive recipients of knowledge to active learners and even creators in the end. The book, which focuses on and pioneers new teaching methodology or methods, is used as a reference by scholars, researchers, practitioners, and readers specialized in fields such as geography, education, and pedagogy.

Chao Ye, male, Distinguished Professor at Fudan University. Chao is the chief expert of Major Project of National Social Sciences Fund of China (No. 19ZDA086) and a member of the National Expert Committee on Grassroots Power Construction and Community Governance. He is mainly engaged in urbanization and rural-urban governance, geographical thought and methodology, and cultural geography and sustainability science. Chao has been honored the title of Young Chang Jiang Scholar by Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, the National Youth Geographic Science and Technology Award by GSC. So far, Chao has published over 100 papers in such journals as Nature, Science Bulletin, Habitat International, Journal of Rural Studies, Land Use Policy, and Acta Geographica Sinica, two books in English, titled A Theory and History of Rural-urban Governance in China (2021), and Urbanization and Production of Space: A Multi-scalar Empirical Study Based on China’s Cases (2023).