Engaging Students in the Learning Process: the …

journal of Geography in Higher Education, Vol. 27, No. 2, July 2003, pp. 183 199. Engaging Students in the Learning Process: the Learning journal CHRIS PARK, Lancaster University, UK. ABSTRACT This paper explores the usefulness of the Learning journal as a means of actively Engaging Students in the Learning process, based on a case study of a third-year undergraduate geography course. After briefly reviewing the literature on journal writing in different contexts, the paper outlines the approach adopted in the new geography course, in which Students were given guidelines on how to write a journal that would be assessed as part of the course. Extracts from Students ' journals for this course are used to illustrate how they approached the task, and how they viewed the experience.

Engaging Students in the Learning Process TABLE I. Summary of the main benefits of using a learning journal. Allowing students to make sense of their own personal histories (Hedlund et al., 1989) Allowing students to assimilate and integrate new information (Hedlund et al., 1989) Encouraging students to learn to think more about …

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