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Regions as geographical learning resources in Higher Education:  Using the local and specific to exemplify the global and generic. Professor Simon K. Haslett Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching [email_address] Presented at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference, London 2 nd  September 2010
Regional Geography in the UK  (Sidaway and Johnston, 2007) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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The Missing Geographers! (Wei, 2006) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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Regional Geography in HE (Murphy & O’Loughlin, 2009) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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Some Educational Benefits (Wade, 2006, 188) ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
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Local to Global and Integrated Transport and Settlement Tourism and Fisheries Heritage Agriculture Hydrology and Drainage Landscape/form Evolution Coastal Science Quaternary History Climatology Weather Plate Tectonics Geology
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Regions as geographical learning resources in Higher Education: Using the local and specific to exemplify the global and generic.

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Editor's Notes

  1. “ The profound geographical differences that divide the contemporary world mean that global processes necessarily play out differently in some parts of the world than in others” (Murphy & O’Loughlin, 2009, 245).