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Teachers’ conceptions of knowledge in secondary school geography. Steve Puttick steven.puttick@education.ox.ac.uk. “one of the things I would stand strongly by is, I'm not there to impart knowledge, I'm there to facilitate them becoming better learners”. Greg.
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Teachers’ conceptions of knowledge in secondary school geography Steve Puttick steven.puttick@education.ox.ac.uk
“one of the things I would stand strongly by is, I'm not there to impart knowledge, I'm there to facilitate them becoming better learners”. Greg
Teachers' conceptions of knowledge in human and physical geography
Teachers' descriptions of the school subject and academic discipline
DPhil title: Secondary school geography teachers’ subject knowledge
1. How might geography teachers’ subject knowledge be conceptualised? 2. In what ways do teachers make knowledge claims in school geography, and are there differences in the type and method of claims between human and physical topics? 3. How do geography teachers construct a relationship between the academic discipline and school subject?