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Understanding the Importance of Place in Teaching: Enhancing Teacher Training and Student Engagement

This research aims to explore the significance of place in education, specifically in the context of geography and curriculum development. It investigates how teacher training can better equip trainees to comprehend the school's local context and engage students in understanding their own place. The study also examines the impact of regeneration and change on a deprived locality and challenges students' views of their place. Through an enquiry-based project, trainee teachers will explore the concept of "Living Geography" and evaluate the role of place in teaching.

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Understanding the Importance of Place in Teaching: Enhancing Teacher Training and Student Engagement

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  1. Does Place Matter? Sue Bermingham MMU & John Lyons GA

  2. How can ITE courses better equip trainees to understand the school context/ the place they are teaching in?

  3. Do Geography trainees need a special understanding of the place /context of the school? • In order to teach spatial skills, • In order to develop a pupils self esteem • In order to teach local geography

  4. Silence of place (Lisa A. Mazzei) • Identity & self esteem (Liz Taylor, Edward Relph, Doreen Massey, Tim Cresswell) • K&U of that place

  5. What do you do now to help Geog trainees be ‘place aware’? • What else could you do?

  6. Curriculum Development Assignment / Enquiry Based Research … MA level … • Is this where ‘place’ comes alive?

  7. Creating Curriculum Materials … engaging the teacher in the place • How can we engage the pupil? • How can we hook pupils into the place of study?

  8. Your task • You are a trainee teacher • Starting your main placement • Need to carry out an Enquiry Based Project ……

  9. Where? John Lyon Geographical Association http://loc8.yhgfl.net/

  10. What ? Who ? What next ? Where ? Why ? When ?

  11. The impact of regeneration and change

  12. The Advanced Manufacturing Park What is it? A Joint venture between Yorkshire Forward and UK Coal which will: • Create 4,500 jobs • Attract £600m of Investment • Develop 40 Hectares of land

  13. Are pupils from a deprived locality more likely to be ‘Geographically inconsistent’? (Diane Swift) • Connor Y9 No job opportunities in the Dearne Valley it is all Call Centres.

  14. Challenging pupils views of their place • Pupils need to understand that their place can be represented in different ways • Understand other views / images can be manipulated • Visioning futures

  15. Your task • You are a trainee teacher • Starting your main placement • Need to carry out an Enquiry Based Project ……

  16. Does ‘Place’ matter? • ‘Living Geography’ • An exploration of the local area that is; • Current and future oriented • Local but set in wider (global) • contexts • Investigating change processes • Evaluating change • In the context of regeneration • and sustainable development.

  17. Living Geography Using a range of real resources – images, maps, voices, etc as well as textbooks, to explore the present and future. All images courtesy of RIDO

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