living geography keynote from london
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Living GeographyAlan Parkinson
Secondary Curriculum Development LeaderGeographical Association
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The video is available: embedded in Living Geography shortly...
Living Geography:
• embraces young people’s geography and experiences• is current and future oriented• is local but set in wider (global) contexts• raises questions of change, sustainability and development
Born here....
A life lived geographically....
Lived here, here and here....
Seeing the wood AND the trees
• The study of geography stimulates an interest in, and a sense of wonder about, places and helps make sense of a complex and dynamically changing world.
• It explains how places and landscapes are formed, how people and environment interact, and how a diverse range of economies and societies are interconnected. It builds on pupils’ own experiences to investigate at all scales from the personal to the global.
• Geographical enquiry encourages questioning, investigation and critical thinking about issues affecting the world and people’s lives, for the present and future.
• Fieldwork is an essential element of this. Pupils learn to think spatially, using maps, visual images and new technologies, including geographical information systems, to obtain, present and analyse information.
• Geography inspires pupils to become global citizens by exploring their own place in the world, their values and responsibilities to other people, to the environment and to the sustainability of the planet.
& the “TREES”
KEY CONCEPTS IN GEOGRAPHY
Thinking GeographicallyGeography provides the possibility to study, reflect on and reach conclusions about topics and issues in a way that is
unique to our subject, seeing the world through a
geographical lens.It helps children to make sense of the
world.
Student Experiences
Geography: the subjectTeacher Choices
Underpinned by Key Concepts
Thinking Geographically
Which learning activity ?
Does this take the learner beyond what they already know ?
Living GeographyLiving Geography
What is the ‘Geography’ that YOUR students are living ?
Geographers do not just see a place as an ‘objective thing’ in the world that can be described and explained as they build up geographical knowledge. ‘Place’ is also experienced on a personal and deeply emotional level.
Eleanor Rawling
GeoBlogs (2003)
NetWORKs
New behaviours
What does a day lived ‘geographically’ look like ?
How does this link to curriculum development ?
New curriculum developmentUpdates of existing documents
Teacher innovationAction Plan for Geography
Living Geography captured....
Today’s WorkshopsLiving Geography
Climate ChangeRuth Totterdell
Very much ‘living’ geography.An evolving issue.
We are all producers and consumers.Interconnectedness.
“I would like to live long enough to see the effects of global
warming. I’ve got an inside tip that it’s all a load of crap!”
Homer Simpson
"Global warming is a greater danger than terrorism. We should
have a war on climate change"Stephen Hawking
Today’s WorkshopsLiving Geography
GCSE: living or dying ?Justin Woolliscroft
Very much ‘living’ geography.Crucial stage for students and
teachers.The ‘end’ of school geography.
New specifications...
Today’s WorkshopsLiving Geography
The World at our fingertips...Jeff Stanfield
Very much ‘living’ geography.New approaches to ‘old’ topics –
digital media literacyEngaging geographies.
Exciting new media for assessments.
Today’s WorkshopsLiving Geography
Everyday GeographiesAlan Parkinson
Very much ‘living’ geography.Looking at current issues, and linking
the curriculum to relevant events.Topicality – flexible curriculum.
Put your best geography head on...
Image by disco~stu (Flickr)
The Geographical Association
“furthering the learning and teaching
of geography”
How is your geographical eye ?
Living Geography: the blog...http://livinggeography.blogspot.com
