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ABSTRACT
Geographical education has been primarily centering on curriculum, teaching and learning, research about the images that students perceive of the geographer is under presented. Missing out on such research is akin to losing a piece integral to a whole mosaic pattern. Drawing on previous approach, this study explored students’ images of the geographer by administering a Draw Geographer Test (DGT) to 212 seventh-, eighth- and ninth-grade students from China. Findings suggest that the geographer is prominently imaged as a Han Chinese, male and physical geographer wearing casual clothes with a magnifying glass, maps, books and/or a globe around and observing, surveying and/or exploring in mountains and valleys. It is suggested that geography education should mitigate the strongly gendered image, duly expose students to more doings of the human geographer, current geographical technology and various working contexts, raise an inclusive perspective of the geographer's ethnicities, deliver students specific information about geographical career as well as translate positive images into a possible geographical career.
Acknowledgments
The author is beholden to Ping Wu and Liuyi Zhu for their gracious assistance in collecting and processing the DGT and the anonymous reviewers for their thoughtful comments. Our appreciation is extended to the grade 7 students from Hefei No. 46 Secondary School, Hefei Amber Secondary School and Hefei Grand Land Secondary School, and the grade 8 students from Hefei No. 59 Secondary School and Hefei No. 45 Secondary School, and the grade 9 students from Hefei No. 59 Secondary School for their participation in the DGT.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.