Full Description
Debates in Geography Education encourages early career teachers, experienced teachers and teacher educators to engage with and reflect on key issues, concepts and debates. It aims to enable readers to reach their own informed judgements with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding.
The second edition is fully updated in light of the latest research, policy and practice in the field, as well as key changes to the curriculum and examination specifications. Expert contributors provide a range of perspectives on international, historical and policy contexts in order to deepen our understanding of significant debates in geography education.
Key debates include:
geography's identity as an academic discipline;
what constitutes knowledge in geography;
places and regional geography;
what it means to think geographically;
constructing the curriculum;
how we link assessment to making progress in geography;
the contribution of fieldwork and outdoor experiences;
technology and the use of Geographical Information;
school geography and employability;
understanding the gap between school and university geography;
evidence-based practice and research in geography education.
The comprehensive, rigorous coverage of these key issues, together with carefully annotated selected further reading, will help support and shape further research and writing. Debates in Geography Education is a key resource that is essential reading for all teachers and researches who wish to extend their grasp of the place of geography in education.
Mark Jones is Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
David Lambert is Professor of Geography Education at UCL Institute of Education, London, UK
Contents
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction: the significance of continuing debates
MARK JONES AND DAVID LAMBERT
PART I
Policy Debates
1 Geography in the National Curriculum for Key Stages, 1, 2 and 3
JOHN HOPKIN AND FRAN MARTIN
2 Geography in the examination system
DAVID GARDNER
PART II
'Classroom' Debates
3 Place in Geography: Change and Challenge
ELEANOR RAWLING
4 The Place of Regional Geography
ALEX STANDISH
5 Physical Geography
DUNCAN HAWLEY
6 Making progress in learning geography
LIZ TAYLOR
7 Understanding conceptual development in school geography
CLARE BROOKS
8 The enquiry approach in geography
JANE FERRETTI
9 Personalising learning in geography
MARK JONES
10 Formative assessment
PAUL WEEDEN AND MICHAEL SIMMONS
11 Curriculum enactment
MARY BIDDULPH
12 The place of fieldwork in geography education
LAUREN HAMMOND
13 The impact of technology on geography and geography teachers
ALAN PARKINSON
14 Using Geographic Information (GI)
MARY FARGHER
15 Geography and 'employability'
JOHN LYON
16 Handling controversial issues in geography
DAVID MITCHELL
PART III
Subject Debates
17 The Anthropocene and the global
CHARLES RAWDING
18 Geography's identity as an academic discipline
NICK CLIFFORD
19 Understanding the gap between schools and universities
GRAHAM BUTT AND GEMMA COLLINS
20 Re-contextualising geography as a school subject
ROGER FIRTH
21 Are we thinking geographically?
JOHM MORGAN
22 Evidence-based practice and reseach in geography education
ROGER FIRTH AND CLARE BROOKS
Acknowledgments
Index
