Approach to students’ social representations in the construction of academic European geography: A case study of Spanish university students
Journal: Quaestiones Geographicae
Year: 2017

Abstract This article provides the results of classroom research involving university students training to be secondary school teachers of geography and history. The research is based on the analysis of a word association test on Europe and the European Union. The results constitute an approach to the geographical and historical representations these students have of their own European continent. This is a fundamental question considering that this collective group is training to teach the conte