Introduction
Living Geography, gold winner of the Geographical Association Publishers' Award 2010, draws from recent school focused research to provide a concept-based geography curriculum that is relevant, purposeful and exciting!
Benefits
Living Geography:
- Embraces ‘young people’s geographies’ – young people’s experiences and encounters with the world
- Recognises the past yet is also current and futures oriented, encouraging young people to envision and project into the future
- Is local yet always set in wider (global) contexts
- Investigates processes that bring change to environments – physical, social, economical and political
- Encourages a critical understanding of change, sustainability and development.
Summary of contents
Living Geography consists of 12 chapters, each of which focuses on a theme relating to current UK education policy, both in the national curriculum for geography and other overarching policy guidelines including QCA and Every Child Matters 2007.
- ESD and future
- Global citizenship and ICT
- Young people’s geographies
- Natural processes
- GIS and virtual space
- Human rights
- Life, death and disease.
Chapter breakdown
Details
Spiral bound, 297 x 235, 232 Pages, Published 30/01/2009
Testimonials
GA Publishers' Awards 2010 Gold Award Winner:
"Living Geography explains clearly the rationale behind the concept of ‘living geography’ and the significance of its approach for teachers. The ideas in the book are rooted in insights gained from research, from innovative curriculum development projects and from practice. Complex ideas are presented clearly, and practitioners will welcome the detailed examples of how the ideas have been developed in local contexts, both in the classroom and in the field.
Accompanying the book is a CD which includes pdf files of the text as well as PowerPoint presentations and links to the Urban Earth project.
This book stimulates thinking about what kind of geographical education young people growing up in the twenty-first century need, and provides a vision of a challenging, exciting, involving and relevant subject. Living Geography is an excellent resource for teachers’ professional development. PGCE students will find it very useful, as will teachers working as a department, or in wider networks, to enhance their curriculum making. The suggestions for further reading in each chapter, together with the excellent bibliography, enable teachers to pursue the ideas further, providing valuable support for those studying for higher degrees. This book takes our thinking about geographical education forward. There should be a copy in every teacher education library and in every geography department."
Look inside
Related products
Risk-free ordering with Optimus Education
Order any print product from Optimus Education and receive a 21-day-risk-free review period.
More Thinking Through Geography
£45.00
Risk-free ordering with Optimus Education
Order any print product from Optimus Education and receive a 21-day-risk-free review period.
Reading our Landscapes
£45.00
Risk-free ordering with Optimus Education
Order any print product from Optimus Education and receive a 21-day-risk-free review period.
Thinking Through Geography (2nd Edition)
£45.00
Risk-free ordering with Optimus Education
Order any print product from Optimus Education and receive a 21-day-risk-free review period.
Be the first to submit a review of this product. Add review
Please note that all comments are subject to review by our online editor before being posted. Comments may be used or republished in future marketing material.