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Ethnogeography

Explore the future potential of ethnogeography in primary geography education, bridging everyday experiences with geographical concepts and encouraging critical thinking. This innovative approach considers cultural contexts and promotes a holistic understanding of the world.

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Ethnogeography

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  1. Ethnogeography A future for primary geography?

  2. Everyday geography School geography

  3. A new paradigm for primary geography? • That enables learners to recognise the value of their everyday experiences and that they are already thinking geographically in their everyday lives • That is suited to the context that they are living (and working) in • Ethnogeography (geography of people, culture)

  4. Ethnomathematics • A key assumption in this field … is that, through interacting in a myriad of daily-life activities, people already think and, more specifically, they think mathematically Frankenstein and Powell (1994:74)

  5. A dichotomy in education • Subjectivity and objectivity • Action and reflection • Teaching and learning • Knowledge and its applications • Practical, everyday knowledge and abstract, theoretical knowledge

  6. The place of geography in education • What is it for? • Why is it in the curriculum? • To make the world a better place? • To learn to live ‘well’ in the world? • To work towards a just and sustainable society?

  7. Freirian concept of education The dominant discourse is that of the powerful and does nothing to reflect the lived experiences or culture of the oppressed • Students (ITE) • Pupils (primary schools) • Teachers (National Curriculum)

  8. Linking practical and academic • Within a liberatory paradigm the voice of the academic or specialist should not be ignored • To replace the privileging of one group with that of another would be just a questionable

  9. Geographical Imagination • Place • Scale • Location • Function • Social, economic, environmental and political dimensions • Sustainable development

  10. Geographical Imagination • Where are the people? • Where am I in this? • What has it to do with me? • Why should I care about this place?

  11. Geographical Imagination • Tourism • Local-global links • Culture and social injustice • Scale • Awe and wonder • Fragility of environments • Sustainable development

  12. Linking practical and academic • How can we enable learners to see the link between everyday experiences and the ways in which geographers make sense of the world?

  13. Ethnogeographical Imagination Geographical Imagination Ethnogeography K/S/U/V ???

  14. Everyday geography School geography

  15. Ethnogeography - whose voices? • Pupils - Simon Catling, Arthur Kelly, Susan Pike, Nicola Ross and Chris Spencer (IRGEE 2005 in press) • Students - Simon Catling (2004), Fran Martin (2000, 2004, 2005) • Teachers - ???? • People in place and space, being-in-the-world: phenomenological origins of geography, personal geographies

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