David Lambert Io EGA Living Geography Me Im
David Lambert Io. E/GA
Living Geography
Me, I’m geography
Curriculum Making How does this take the learner beyond what they already know? Teacher Choices Underpinned by Key Concepts Student Experiences Learning Activity Geography: the subject Thinking Geographically
Living Geography • Does this ‘brand’ have legs? – Why brand? What’s wrong with what we’ve got? • What does it mean? – To teachers, young people, parents, politicians/policy makers
Living Geography • embraces young people’s geographies • is current and futures oriented • is often ‘local’ but always set in wider (global) contexts • investigates changing environments • encourages a critical understanding of ‘sustainable development’
Young People’s Geography … A YPG curriculum will: – be planned through dialogue: between teachers, young people, teacher educators and academic geographers – draw from young people’s everyday experiences – extend the way that young people are involved in, and can directly influence, the curriculum – emphasise dialogic pedagogies – enable young people to use their capacity to think geographically when encountering the world
Geo-capability • What do we want this to evoke? – ‘world-awareness’ – space-perspective – futures-orientation • How can we best express this? – KUSV?
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