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European Geosciences Union
General Assembly 2006
Vienna, Austria, 02 – 07 April 2006

Wednesday, 5 April 2006
Lecture Room:30

14:00 - 14:15
EGU06-A-00889; ES3-1WE3O-003
Sanchez, E.; Prieur, M.
Teaching Geosciences In France - An Inquiry About Teachers And Students During Fieldwork Courses

Robert L. Frodeman (photo KM)

"...we claim that much geological knowledge is embodied and non-propositional and that geological metaphors are grounded in sensorimotor experiences of the lived body. The features identified above are not deficits of the science of geology; on the contrary, the ability of geologist to cope with problems in a synthetic manner constitutes one of the most interesting features of their science. After a long period of being considered a soft science,35 the time has arrived for a reevaluation of the status of field-oriented sciences such as geology."

Raab, T. & Frodeman, R. (2002). What´s it like to be a geologist? Phenomenology of geology and its practical implications. Philosophy an Geography, 5/1, 69-81.

"... le travail géologique ne consiste nullement, comme on le crois souvent, à ramasser au petit bonheur des échantillons de roches ou de fossiles, mais à interpréter les aspects du sol, à en saisir l'architecture, à en reconstituer l'histoire. Une explication, certes, provisoire, fragmentaire, maladroite, mais lourde de promesses et principe des synthèses futures."

Théodore Monod. Méharées. Je Sers (1937)