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- Sustaining geography Breaking down barriers
- Challenges?
- Falling numbers? Source: CGP, using data from Joint Council for Qualifications 2007
- “ Geography in schools is not doing enough to help children develop a picture of climate change, learn to lead sustainable lives and find their feet as global citizens of the 21st century.”
- “ Many children interviewed in Key Stage 3 said they found geography boring and irrelevant.”
- Watering down of geography?
- Compressed KS3
- Combined humanities
- Generic learning skills
- Geography? Science? Citizenship? PSE? Identity?
- A new dawn?
- Concept-led curriculum…
- Place
- Space
- Scale
- Interdependence
- Physical and human processes
- Environmental interaction and sustainable development
- Cultural understanding and diversity
- Making curriculum links
- Making curriculum links
- Haven’t we been here before?
- Foundation Studies
- Social Studies
- Humanities
- So what is new?
- Thinking geographically
- Strong sense of subject identity
- Value of geography
- Sustaining geography?
- Workshop
- Case studies – David, Rob, Tom (10 mins each)
- Identify opportunities for subject collaboration (10 minutes)
- Conclusion and invitation to further research (SPC Wiki - http://spclinks.pbwiki.com/ )
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