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Engelen, Eva and Budke, Alexandra ORCID: 0000-0003-1063-8991 . Secondary school students' development of arguments for complex geographical conflicts using the internet. Educ. Inq.. ABINGDON: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD. ISSN 2000-4508

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Abstract

In secondary school geography lessons, students are encouraged to form argumentatively founded opinions on complex geographical conflicts. For these conflicts, there is no one right solution and the content quality of the argumentation lies especially in the multi-perspective approach to the conflict and the integration of spatial information. The Internet offers a wealth of multi-perspective and spatial information on a great number of geographical conflicts worldwide. However, the digital information is neither checked nor filtered nor didactically prepared. This study examined the ability of 20 German secondary school students in developing arguments on a complex geographical conflict after searching the Internet for information. The students' information search and their concurrent verbalisations were taped using screen and audio capture technology. The developed arguments have been assessed using defined criteria for argumentations on geographical conflicts. The analysis of the arguments showed that the students included a range of perspectives , which suggests that they were able to use the Internet as a source for obtaining multi-perspective information on the conflict. However, whilst effective digital information retrieval was the pre-condition in understanding the geographical conflict, it has not shown to guarantee the development of a high-quality argumentation.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Engelen, Eva UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Budke, Alexandra UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-1063-8991 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-565108
DOI:	10.1080/20004508.2021.1966887
Journal or Publication Title:	Educ. Inq.
Publisher:	TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Place of Publication:	ABINGDON
ISSN:	2000-4508
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language KNOWLEDGE; SKILLS Multiple languages Education & Educational Research Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56510