HR: 1340h
AN: ED13A-1133    [Abstracts]
TI: Oceanography for the 21st Century
AU: * Stewart, R H
EM: stewart@ocean.tamu.edu
AF: Texas A&M University, Oceanography Department, College Station, TX 77843-3146 United States
AB: Textbooks and most oceanography courses are organized around the 19th century concepts of biological, chemical, geological, and physical oceanography. This approach fails to involve students in the interesting problems of the 21st century: the role of the ocean in climate and weather, fisheries, and coastal problems, all of which involve a complex interplay of chemical, biological, and physical systems plus policy issues. To make my oceanography and environmental geosciences courses more relevant, I organize them around case studies such as coastal pollution or climate change. After using this approach for two years, I find students are much more interested in the ocean, and they understand the relevance of the ocean to their daily lives. Because no textbook is very useful for teaching these case studies, I have begun to write a new open-source book: Oceanography for the 21st Century: An Ocean Planet.
UR: http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/home/oceanography_book.htm
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
DE: 0820 Curriculum and laboratory design
DE: 1635 Oceans (1616, 3305, 4215, 4513)
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005