This paper addresses the value of fieldwork compared with desk‐based teaching using student questionnaire and focus group approaches applied to two contrasting field trips in the Geography programme at Massey University. Student views on the relative value of an 8‐day residential alpine physical geography field trip to Fox Glacier and a day's ‘tour’ of Manawatu fluvial and coastal landforms indicated in both instances that the fieldwork was highly valued. The value of fieldwork lies particularly in providing students with a better sense of real‐world environments and processes, an enhanced understanding of their subject and affords opportunities for social interaction that cannot be duplicated in class.
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