| Awards
Best Student Presentation
at the Annual Meeting
ACAG presents an award for the best student presentation at the Annual
Meeting.
Founders' Award
With an increase in the number of presentations at the
Annual Meetings, the Founders'
Award was introduced to allow for recognition of best student
presentations in more than one category. The host organizing
committee decides how to allocate the Best Student Presentation Award
and the Founders' Award.
Stuart Semple Award
The Stuart Semple Award is presented for contributions to enhancing
geography education in Atlantic Canada. Nominations for this
award should be sent to the current ACAG President in advance of the
annual meeting.
Stuart Semple Scholarship
The Stuart Semple Scholarship is awarded annually to a
graduating
student of geography in Atlantic Canada to pursue a B.Ed. degree, with
a view to him or her becoming a geography teacher at a school in the
region.
Stuart Semple (Mount Allison
University) received the Geographic Literacy Award from the Canadian
Council for Geographic Education (CCGE) in 2010 and a cash prize from
the National Geographic Society. He has devoted the entire prize
money to improving geographical education in Atlantic Canada. A
fund for that purpose has been established with the Royal Canadian
Geographical Society.
Stuart Semple Scholarship page
on the CCGE
website.
The purpose of the Stuart Semple Scholarship is to engage departments
of geography and faculties of education in Atlantic Canada in promoting
the sound teaching of sound geography in the schools of Atlantic
Canada.
Beginning in 2011, and for the duration of the fund, departments of
geography will be enabled, in sequence, to nominate a graduating
student with a Major or Minor in geography to receive a $1,000
scholarship, payable toward fees for a B.Ed. program in Atlantic Canada
that prepares the student to teach geography/social studies at junior
or senior high school level. In return, the recipient will be
expected to present a paper at the annual meeting of ACAG in the final
year of his or her B.Ed. program.
Sequence of Departments to
nominate a graduating student for the award:
- 2020: Dalhousie
University
- 2021: Mount Allison
University
- 2022: Université de Moncton
- 2023: Saint Mary's
University
- 2024: Memorial
University
Nomination Process
The appropriate department of geography in any year will inform the
Canadian Council for Geographic Education of the student who is being
nominated for the award and will provide relevant information on the
nominee. Students interested in this scholarship should therefore apply
to the Head or Chair of their Department of Geography.
Application Guidelines and
How to Apply
The nominated student is required later in the same year of nomination
to apply for admission to a B.Ed. program at a university in Atlantic
Canada, to train as a teacher of geography/social studies (junior high
or senior high school).
Upon acceptance into a B.Ed. Program, the nominee applies to the
Canadian Council for Geographic Education for a bursary in the amount
of $1,000. The nominee must support the application with
documentary evidence of being registered in the B.Ed. program as
outlined above.
Reporting
Recipients of the bursary will be expected
to present a paper at the annual meeting of the Atlantic Division of
the Canadian Association of Geographers (ACAG) in the final year of
their two-year B.Ed. Program; or at the first annual meeting of ACAG
after they have graduated from a shorter B.Ed. Program. The paper
may be developed from one that they prepared during their B.Ed.
Studies; in any case, it should address an aspect of geographical
education or teaching at the school level.
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