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David Lambert. IoE/GA. Living Geography. Me, I’m geography. Curriculum Making. How does this take the learner beyond what they already know?. Learning Activity. Student Experiences. Teacher Choices. Geography: the subject. Underpinned by Key Concepts. Thinking Geographically.
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David Lambert IoE/GA
Curriculum Making How does this take the learner beyond what they already know? Learning Activity Student Experiences Teacher Choices Geography: the subject Underpinned by Key Concepts 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?