Students Social Space: a Method to Define Students’ Home-place in Geographical Teaching of High School

Author: Sheng-Chin Lin(Department of Geography, National Taiwan Normal University)

Vol.&No.：Vol. 53, No. 1
Date：April 2008
Pages：155-174
DOI：10.3966/2073753X2008045301007

Abstract：

Since the 1980s, theoretical sociology and geography have increasingly emphasized the notion of social space. This study defines students’ “home-place” as a kind of social space which can also be interpreted in the light of social-node and everyday life-path theory. The study goes on to suggest that a geography course on “home-place” can help students to better understand their own “social space” with the school, the home and the community. To design their home-place course teachers will need to take into account students’ collective emotions and experience, their accounts of their everyday life. One of the key ideas is that students will be eager to study harder in a course which enables them to better understand their own local situation, their own home-place.

Keywords：everyday life, social space, high school geographical teaching, local education, student