2. Background to developing graduate attributes
within and beyond the classroom
Teaching the Geography in Education module
Dissertations on educational subjects
Geographical Association talks on teaching
Geography Ambassadors
3. Foster (2003) a „Tesco‟ model of education in which
learning is packaged and sold along more „flexible‟ lines
to suit economic need and consumer demand
Lambert et al (2007) the Commodification of
Higher Education
This purely skilled based approach to student
employability undermines the more social aspirations of
the entrepreneurial ideal
4. Barnett (2000) suggests we need to educate for the
formation of the human being in the university in an age
of supercomplexity
We need to help students write their own „flexible
biographies‟
Lecturers need to step aside to some extent to allow
students to be given space in which to develop their
own selves in the radical uncertainty posed by
supercomplexity
5. Shulman 2005 :52
Signature pedagogies are the fundamental ways
in which practitioners are educated for their
new professions.
Emphasis on students‟ active performance
6. Based on Rawlinson et al (2003) Have Geographers lost
their way? Issues relating to the recruitment of
geographers into school teaching JGHE 27(1) pp 39-56
Module created to provide a solid grounding in the
nature and purpose of geography education to give
students confidence to make a decision about entry
into the teaching profession.
10. Factors influencing educational attainment:
A study looking into the factors that influence
educational achievement and aspirations of a year 11
geography class 2002
Does a mainstream or a special school provide the most
inclusive environment for a pupil with special
educational needs? 2005
11. Education in Northern Ireland
Importance of geography in Northern Ireland‟s primary
National Curriculum 2005
How has religion affected spatial movements and
practices within a microcosm of the education system
of Belfast? 2008
Issues of Sectarianism within Sport at Secondary
School level in Belfast 2010
12. Fieldwork
A study into the benefits of using different learning
styles during a field trip at St Mary‟s RCVA School
Blackhill 2009
Does fieldwork benefit the teaching of geography and
does the use of fieldwork appeal to student-centred
learning? 2012
13. 7th. November 2010– Louise Marley and Sarah
Rusling both our B.A graduates will talk about
teaching in Walker Technology College „In the
Classroom‟
29th March 2011 –Dr Rachel Lofthouse Head of
Teacher Learning and Development in Newcastle
University „What is the PGCE?‟
28th September 2011 Lisa Conlan St Roberts
School Washington “Teaching – is it for me?”
14. 7th March 2012 Lynn Kennedy a previous BSc
Geography and Environmental Management graduate
currently studying PGCE Secondary Geography at
Durham university will talk about „PGCE the
Preconceptions and Misconceptions‟
10th December 2012 Mike Simpson one of our
previous B.A graduates will talk about taking the
secondary PGCE course at Newcastle University and
his experiences as he starts to teach at St Joseph‟s
School Hebburn „Doing the secondary PGCE course
and starting to teach‟
15.
16. The Royal Geographical Society has an
Ambassadors scheme which recruits, trains and
supports undergraduate geographers to act as
ambassadors for geography in the classroom. The
Ambassadors are trained to give presentations
in schools sharing their enthusiasm for
geography and giving information to pupils on
careers with geography and studying geography
at university.
17. In 2012 twenty three Geography Ambassadors
were trained from our present second and third
year students. Feedback from the Royal
Geographical Society rom schools which three
of the Ambassadors visited from September to
December 2012.
18. A teacher from the Geography Department of a
school in Nottingham said of a 3rd year BSc
Geography student‟s four visits to the school in
which she went on a field visit to the Burbage
Valley in Derbyshire , “Beverley was extremely
helpful and knowledgeable; she led three groups
of five students on each of the two days sharing
and facilitating students in the collection of
their fieldwork data. The students really
enjoyed working with her.”
19. A teacher from the Geography Department of a
school in Sunderland said of a 3rd year BSc
Geography student‟s visit “There was strong
interaction with the students, and he was able to get
involved with every group.”
A teacher from the Geography Department of a
school in Peterborough said of a 2nd year BSc
Geography student‟s visit “ He was a positive &
confident individual who came fully prepared for his
first presentation. The presentation was clear &
used a range of interactive media which the students
engaged with well.”
20. The module Geography in Education allows students to
develop their own reflexive biographies and to examine
signature pedagogies in their own way.
By listening to others from outside the academy talk
about the teaching experience and by visiting schools
to encourage others to take geography they can be
given space in which to develop their own selves in the
radical uncertainty posed by supercomplexity
21. 1. Banks J A (2001) Citizenship Education and Diversity Implications
for Teacher Education Journal of Teacher Education 52(1) pp5-16
2. Barnett R (2000) Realizing the University in an Age of
Supercomplexity Buckingham Open University Press
3. Foster J (2002) Sustainability, Higher Education and the learning
society Environmental Education Research 8(1) pp35-41
4. Hutchings P (2005) Building pedagogical intelligence
Carnegie Perspectives at:
http:www.carnegiefoundation.org/perspectives
5. Lambert C, Parker A and Neary M (2007)
Entrepreneurialism and critical pedagogy: reinventing
the Higher Education Curriculum Teaching in Higher
Education 12 (4) pp 525-537
6. Loughran J J (2002) Effective Reflective Practice in search of
meaning in learning about teaching Journal of Teacher Education
53(1) pp 33-43
22. 7. Rawlinson S, Essex-Cater L, Bolden D and Constable H (2003)
Have Geographers lost their way? Issues relating to the
recruitment of geographers into school teaching Journal of
Geography in Higher Education 27 (1) pp39-56
8. Shulman L (2005) Signature Pedagogies in the
professions Daedalus 134 pp 52-59
9. Summerhill A, Matranga M, Peltier G and Hill G (1998) High
School Seniors‟ Perceptions of a Teaching Career Journal of
Teacher Education 49 (3) pp 228-234
10. Walford R (2000) Geography Examined 1850-2000 Geography
85 (4) pp 303 -310
