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Geography: Why Argue?

Geography: Why Argue?. Diane Swift diane_swift@yahoo.co.uk. Geography: Why Argue?. Argumentation Emphases thinking and communication skills Enabled geography to be used as an educational resource. Geography: Why Argue?.

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Geography: Why Argue?

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  1. Geography: Why Argue? Diane Swift diane_swift@yahoo.co.uk

  2. Geography: Why Argue? Argumentation • Emphases thinking and communication skills • Enabled geography to be used as an educational resource

  3. Geography: Why Argue? • Argumentation is not about getting angry, it is not about ‘just because I say….” • See the attached extract from the Monty Python sketch.

  4. Geography: Why Argue? “ What we want to emphasise is a notion of place as one of the arenas where people of all ages learn to negotiate with others – to learn to form a thing called society.” Doreen Massey in the forthcoming GA Secondary Handbook

  5. Geography: Why Argue? Geographical education has a significant role in supporting this notion. It can help empower young people to make rational, informed, place based decisions, not only about where to live but about the different ways that they can participate in helping to shape that place.

  6. Geography: Why Argue? Can you develop an argument with a map? for a map? on a map?

  7. Geography: Why Argue? “ It is probably now well accepted, although it is still important to argue, that a lot of our ‘geography’ is in the mind. That is to say, we carry around with us mental images of the world, of the country in which we live ( all those images of the North/South divide), of the street next door.” Doreen Massey, forthcoming

  8. Geography: Why Argue? Can you argue for a map? Which of these equal area projection maps would you use with year 9 tomorrow to discuss with them how big each country is?

  9. Geography: Why Argue? Dialogic teaching harnesses the power of talk to engage children, stimulate and extend their thinking, and advance their learning and understanding. Not all classroom talk secures these outcomes and some may even discourage them. Alexander, 2004

  10. Geography: Why Argue? Dialogic teaching, therefore is Collective Reciprocal Supportive Cumulative Purposeful

  11. Geography: Why Argue? Can you argue on a map? Can you create a map that represents an argument for your place being seen as a sustainable community?

  12. Geography: Why Argue? The Where Will I Live project attempted to create the time and the space for pupils and teachers to engage in place based argumentation. Argumentation strategies were used to both demonstrate how places are created and to stimulate discussion about how places could be re-created.

  13. Geography: Why Argue? The response to social justice which uses a view of childhood that perceives the child as essentially a directed, immature, undeveloped passive participant in the process of geographical education is clearly and strongly at odds with the sense of the child as an environmentally aware and (potentially) engaged individual. Simon Catling, 2003

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