TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching transnationalism in the Caribbean
T2 - toward an understanding of representation and neo‐colonialism in human geography
AU - Mains, Susan P.
N1 - Published online: 22 Jan 2007
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Undergraduate geography courses provide a significant entry way into representing and challenging dominant images of places and identities. Teaching geography in the Caribbean raises significant issues in terms of providing materials that explore representations of places and topics that are grounded in the region, while also moving beyond representations of islands as simply ‘Third World’, separate and distant. The author draws on the case study of teaching human geography courses at the University of the West Indies‐Mona, to explore the usefulness of transnationalism as a pedagogical framework—in conjunction with the use of films and fieldtrips—while examining processes of representation and neo‐colonialism.
AB - Undergraduate geography courses provide a significant entry way into representing and challenging dominant images of places and identities. Teaching geography in the Caribbean raises significant issues in terms of providing materials that explore representations of places and topics that are grounded in the region, while also moving beyond representations of islands as simply ‘Third World’, separate and distant. The author draws on the case study of teaching human geography courses at the University of the West Indies‐Mona, to explore the usefulness of transnationalism as a pedagogical framework—in conjunction with the use of films and fieldtrips—while examining processes of representation and neo‐colonialism.
U2 - 10.1080/0309826042000242530
DO - 10.1080/0309826042000242530
M3 - Article
SN - 0309-8265
VL - 28
SP - 317
EP - 332
JO - Journal of Geography in Higher Education
JF - Journal of Geography in Higher Education
IS - 2
ER -