Handbook of Geography Education

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Sarah Bednarz is Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University USA. She was educated at Mount Holyoke College (A.B. 1973); the University of Chicago (M.A.T 1974); and Texas A&M University (PhD 1992). She served as president of the American Association of Geographers (2015-2016) and has a long affiliation with the Commission on Geography Education IGU. Previously she was associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Geosciences (2008 to 2014). Sarahs research interests are in the intersection of teaching and learning geospatial technologies and spatial and geographic thinking. She was PI on two major curriculum and educational research projects; co-authored the national geography standards Geography for Life (1994 and 2012); participated in the National Research Council Learning to Think Spatially project and helped to develop the National Assessment of Educational Performance (NAEP) framework in geography. In 2013 she co-chaired the Geography Education Research Committee (GERC) of the 21st Century Road Map for 21st Century Geography Education Project.  She holds a University Professorship for Teaching Excellence received the Gilbert H. Grosvenor Honors for Geographic Education (2007) and was an inaugural AAG Fellow.   Jerry T. Mitchell is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of South Carolina USA. He holds a BS in History and MA in Geography from Towson University and a PhD in Geography from the University of South Carolina where he returned to the faculty in 2004 after teaching for several years in Pennsylvania. Jerrys research has focused on environmental hazards and geography education. He was the coordinator of the South Carolina Geographic Alliance for 17 years providing geography learning opportunities for more than 40000 teachers and students. Additionally he served as the Editor of the Journal of Geography from 2010-2019 was President of the National Council for Geographic Educationin 2020 and was awarded the 2022 Gilbert H. Grosvenor Honors in Geographic Education from the American Association of Geographers.