Participation in Field Learning and Teaching Opportunities: Avenues to Research and Publication

ABSTRACT

Field experiences continue to be a hallmark of a geographer's education and, for that matter, reeducation, as we all strive to remain current in the real world. Academic geographers beginning their ascent towards tenure and promotion might consider augmenting their portfolios with materials emerging from field teaching and learning activities.

Key Words:

• field courses
• tenure
• promotion

Notes

¹The Journal of Geography and Journal of Geography in Higher Education publish the greatest quantity of field teaching articles. Others include the Geographical Review, the Geographer Teacher, and the Geographical Bulletin. One measure of quality is Google Scholar's h5-index; for example, a score of 10 indicates that ten articles were cited ten times during the last five-year period. While the Journal of Geography (h5-index = 15), Journal of Geography in Higher Education (h5-median = 22), and the Geographical Review (h5-index = 13) have overall lower h5-indices than the Professional Geographer (h5-index = 20), Urban Geography (h5-index = 21), Economic Geography (h5- index = 24), Progress in Physical Geography (h5-index = 31), and Progress in Human Geography (h5-index = 48), these journals do not often published community-based research and learning articles.

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Notes on contributors

Donald Albert

Donald Albert is a professor at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA. His research interests include medical geography with emphasis on naturopathic physicians, geographic education, and applied geography.

John Strait

John Strait is a professor at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA. His primary research interests focus on the intersections of racial and ethnic identity, urban residential dynamics, and the spatial realization of socioeconomic disadvantage.

Ava Fujimoto-Strait

Ava Fujimoto-Strait is an instructor at Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, Texas, USA. Her research interests are in both biogeography and climatology. She has co-lead two field courses to the Big Island of Hawaii.