Re-presenting Geography

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Product details in brief

ISBN:

978-1-899857-61-6

Key stage:

KS3 +

Author(s):

Liz Taylor

Introduction

Re-presenting Geography explores exciting concepts in geography by encouraging your secondary students to consider the views of others. This resource helps geography teachers to improve the teaching and learning of their subject by enriching their knowledge of geography.

Summary of contents

How do teachers think about teaching their subject; how do they support their students to learn, re-present or reappraise their geography? This challenging and rewarding book provides you with engaging content that encourages an approach to teaching that is effective in the classroom.

This resource incorporates ideas from cultural geography which are now central to the main thrust of secondary school geography, and are as relevant at Key Stages 3 and 4 as at Advanced Level.

Re-presenting Geography has three broad themes:

Whose view? Through whose eyes do we see the world and how does this influence our understanding of it?
Whose world? How do others experience the world and how does this influence what is taught?
Writing the world. How do students construct or re-present their worlds and how can teachers help them in the process?

Re-presenting Geography helps teachers to improve their teaching and enrich their knowledge of geography. The extensive student materials have been trialled in schools, reworked and refined. Plans and photocopiable resources are included.

Chapter breakdown

Welcome

1. Whose view?

1.1 Different views, different voices

1.2 Enquiry sequence: packaging geography

1.3 Working with still images

1.4 Enquiry sequence: filming the city

1.5 Working with moving images

1.6 Thinking about place(s)

1.7 Enquiry sequence: in place, out of place

1.8 Constructing and changing images

1.9 A broader view of fieldwork

1.10 How can we develop rigour in assessment?

2. Whose world?

2.1 Creating the enquiry sequence

2.2 Enquiry sequence: should people be allowed to destroy the Amazon Rainforest?

2.3 Enquiry sequence: trees or televisions?

2.4 Teaching about places and people

2.5 Exemplar lesson: challenging assumptions about development

2.6 Accessing more challenging written text

3. Writing the world

3.1 Scaffolding geographical learning

3.2 Enquiry sequence: researching rivers

3.3 Facilitating high quality extended writing

3.4 Working with essay planners

3.5 Assessment for learning

3.6 Enquiry sequence: tourism – is it worth it?

Details

Spiral bound, 225 x 297, 192 Pages, Published 2004

Testimonials

‘For teachers who want to bring new thinking into their secondary school geography lessons, this book provides both inspiration and practical support.’

‘This book gives teachers access to exciting new thinking taking place in human geography … it is concerned with everyday representations of the world … and how teachers can use these to help students see things differently.’

The Geographical Association

‘Liz Taylor’s innovative look at secondary geography should be on every department’s list of essentials... It would stretch even the most forward looking department as it is an authoritative curriculum, lesson planning and assessment guide rolled into one.’

Andy Schofield, Head of Varndean School, Brighton

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