New PC Geographies (Post Coronavirus) v6.0

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New Geographies : New Curriculum
PC (Post Coronavirus) School Geographies
A provocation & some curriculum making
‘Geogra...

Moments of crisis, such as the one we are living, are deeply painful in ways
that cannot be u...

The front cover of the New York Times for 24th May 2020
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Contents -
Contents p. 4
Introduction p. 6
Thinking through the changes p. 12
Geographical themes and possible changes p. ...

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l) Droning on...
12.Development and Inequality p.49
13.Changing leisure time and working hours p.56
14.Demographics p.57
a...

★ Groupwork in Teams - new ways of working
PC Curriculum Making - some early thoughts p.100
★ A curriculum for learning ou...

Of course, anyone currently learning GCSE geography is familiar with those things to some
degree, and George is in danger ...

they were not as significant. This is significant as a choice to teach a particular topic at KS3
means a decision not to...

and have made a start on your own thinking, or have identified some of these stories
emerging in the media, or via your ow...

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And yet knowing this, few preparations were made, and vital equipment wasn’t stockpiled
when it should have been.
https://...

So perhaps now is the time to drop some of that ‘trivial’ stuff I mentioned earlier to
make space for greater thinking abo...

The movement between scales is dizzying, from
measurements in micrometers, through
hyper-connected int...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/20/coronavirus-myth-economy-uk-bu
siness-life-death
Also this piece by ...

The latest update was added on the 4th of June 2020
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Geographical Themes and possible changes
These ideas are presented separately, but in reality, a piece of work in a classr...

Spanish officials also sprayed a beach with bleach. Not sure if that would speed up chemical
weathering in the area
https:...

example, bringing the virus with them into areas with relatively low population density. There
were signs that locals were...

Imagine the issues of trying to deal with a disaster (I’ll avoid involving the word ‘natural’
there) with all the addition...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/ban-live-animal-markets-pandemics-un-biod
iversity-chief-age-of-extinction ...

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Tom Heap talks through the environmental issues emerging during the coronavirus pandemic and
asks what the legacy might be...

7. Biodiversity
Given the fact tourists aren’t travelling to Thailand, there are benefits to some of the rare
turtles such...

9. Climate Change - the big one!
Climate Change will still need to be at the heart of the curriculum when we
return, perh...

Mark Maslin’s piece too on the reports of warming climates in the future.
https://theconversation.com/will-three-billion-p...

In it she references another great thinker Joe Moran, in a piece from 2004. She also talks
about the value of public par...

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/23/social-distancing-social-pods-coro
navirus-lockdown
And this piece o...

obscured under glib talk of globalisation and openness. For the demagogues who govern so
much of the world, the pandemic h...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/26/life-after-coronavirus-pandemic-change-wor
ld
https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dpublo...

● From making city cycling safer to promoting social distancing green spaces, these are the
changes we could see in the co...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/22/coronavirus-will-reshape-our-cities-we-just-
dont-know-how-yet?CMP=share_btn...

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A useful piece from Richard Florida on CityLab in April 2020 on the ‘Geography of
Coronavirus’:
https://www.citylab.com/e...

Thanks to Nik Griffith for the tip-off to this report.
Community also comes from sport:
https://www.ft.com/content/00ed367...

Tim Marshall took a cycle ride around London in mid-May and sent this tweet which could
be useful for a ‘changing places’...

Thoughts on working from home
11. Employment: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary
The Economy has changed… which jobs will di...

I had an email update in early April from Kate Raworth, author of ‘Doughnut Economics’ (a
speaker at the GA Conference i...

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https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/half-billion-people-could-be-pushed-poverty-corona
virus-warns-oxfam
This piece al...

cent has to deal with 100 per cent, well, you’ve got stress and strains. It’s
inevitable.”
“We need to be thinking very ca...

There were also mentions of Hudson Yards, an exclusive shopping mall which I visited while
in New York last year, which is...

One suggestion is that cafes may move outside and use street stalls rather than the previous
layouts. This may be part of ...

term rents and going into a space that somebody else occupied the day before without deep
cleaning between each tenant?
Ap...

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https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-singapore-farming/singapore-ramps-up-r
ooftop-farming-plans-as-virus-...

seems, and there may well be other cultural changes in what meats are consumed. The
consumption of ‘bush meat’ such as bat...

He’s interviewed here:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/mar/27/underground-skyscrapers-and-off-grid-bun
kers-inside-...

https://www.ft.com/content/f8e58c8a-de5e-44ac-84c4-dac767e6cfca - service sector has
been badly affected by the lockdown, ...

This final article connects sections e) and f)
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/kalpona-akter-interview-bangladesh/...

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BBC Radio 4 programme on this theme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000gvd3
In Business Programme - Radio 4
How can co...

Here’s the data on the lockdown
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-shopping-travel-data-coronavirus
g) Remittances
Thanks ...

Certainly offices will be very different places when we return. Screens and distancing are
going to be part of the range o...

that they can do, they are ideal for escapism. Some games have really sold tremendously
well, as they are calm, or allow a...

I can see a new unit on the geography of gaming emerging, with a look at the communities
that develop around certain game...

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YouGov Report is here: https://foodfoundation.org.uk/covid-19-latest-impact-on-food-2/
You can browse through all the gra...

A typical quote:
The inequality in the conditions for rent, housing, and food means Covid-19 is not
a democratic disease....

And this report has images of empty hotels in Las Vegas, and yet the homeless sleep in
taped off boxes in a car park:
http...

although price gouging is presumably still being monitored:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/09/hedge-funds-r...

Graph copyright: The Guardian
With 55.1 deaths per 100,000 people in the most deprived places compared with 25.3 in the
le...

There was also a quote from Laura Spinney’s history of the Spanish Flu ‘Pale Rider’
“The flu may have been democratic … bu...

13. Changing relationship with leisure time and working hours
With people adapting to home working, if productivity stays ...

This New York Times article had an excellent illustration by Pete Gamlen exploring whether
the infrastructure will be able...

https://www.mideq.org/en/blog/great-amplifier-covid-19-migration-and-inequality/
A Q&A here from the Climate and Migration...

badly affected by the lockdown. A release of the young, they argue, would lead to
“substantial economic and societal benef...

I also liked the phrase that earthquakes have shocks and aftershocks, so we will expect to
see some aftershocks from thi...

Emmanuel Macron piece is also relevant here. In the FT which offers limited reads of
articles: https://www.ft.com/content...

https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/06/28/globalisation-is-dead-and-we-need-to-in
vent-a-new-world-order
Thanks to ...

Greta Thunberg - some recent tweets on this theme.
Thanks to Kate Stockings for this idea to use these quotes from Greta’s...

Apple’s mobility data came out in late April. Here’s the graph for London at the time.
17. Tourism - a changed industry
a)...

Image copyright: Ben King - used with permission
Some people are concerned that areas like Devon and Norfolk will see surg...

As Jon Ostrower, the editor of The Air Current put it to me, “there are only two things that
airlines can do to make peop...

weekend shows that we just can’t be trusted to behave properly - endangering lives,
irresponsible behaviour, litter and hu...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2020/may/05/uk-car-sales-tumble-services-pmi-r
ecession-covid-19-business-live ...

Also seems that the Canary Islands are opening up to tourism:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/23/canary-islands...

later, giving the government additional surveillance powers. Civil liberties need to be
balanced against the other regulat...

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-04-03/uk-air-traffic-down-by-almost-90-compared-with-last-y
ear/
Heathrow is closing one of ...

Road traffic reductions have taken traffic back to 1955 levels apparently, and traffic speeds
are up as a result, particul...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/may/23/two-wheels-good-bike-sales-soar-as-
uk-takes-to-cycling?CMP=Share_And...

https://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-blog/get-active/2019/everyday-walking-and-cycling/commut
e-by-bike-with-confidence/
The as...

The United Nations published a report in March 2020
https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/sg_report_socio-economic_imp...

Currently this stands at around 820 million people but it could well double according to some
estimates, and those 110 mil...

Interestingly a new WRAP report in the first part of May said that levels of food waste were
down almost a third, so tha...

People are turning to them who have never been before, such as furloughed workers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-5244...

And a powerful image on the cover of the NYT magazine at the end of May.
23. Superpowers: Hard and Soft Power
The changing...

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/Britain-should-brace-itself-for-a-new-world-order-after-cor
onavirus?fbclid=IwAR0qsPC6...

And while UK is losing its power, China is hardening its approach with a bit of hard power:
threats with ‘wolf warrior’ di...

http://geographical.co.uk/opinion/item/3651-coronavirus-after-this-crisis-i-hope-to-see-busine
sses-aligning-their-goals-w...

installing this app as it is not clear it will be of any use whatsoever. They seem not to want
any criticism hence the app...

discussing disasters such as tectonic hazards and the preparation and planning that needs
to be put in by communities at r...

local villages where I live. The map can also be embedded into website and VLEs should
you wish to:
https://www.ons.gov.uk...

One key health area that lockdown has brought out in many media stories has been the
impact on mental health - apparently...

Sure, don't hoard toilet paper – but if policymakers fear fear itself, they'll downplay
real dangers to avoid "mass panic...

curtailed the travelling of the ‘van-lifers’ as many of the places they headed for have closed
down.
https://www.c-span.or...

Image copyright: Daily Mirror
32. An island mindset
This piece from Politico, which was shared by Danny Dorling, got me th...

http://fireinparadisebook.com/ - Fire in Paradis book
David Quammen in his book “Spillover”, which we used in our school ...

can’t play gigs, but many are streaming concerts or performances instead - Chick Corea has
been doing some wonderful live ...

Lockdown has disrupted ingrained habits for transport, social- and working
life, altering behavioural patterns that have ...

Thanks also to Sharon Witt for the tip off to Gillian Judson’s Walking Curriculum which is
free for Kindle if you are an ...

My creative colleague Claire Kyndt has produced a lovely idea of an urban dérive to look
for signs of the pandemic: signs,...

I was also really interested in this piece by Stuart Dunn on the Digital Humanities - he
works in the field of GIS which ...

https://www.1843magazine.com/upfront/brave-new-word/do-you-speak-corona-a-guide-to-co
vid19-slang
A country comparison too...

More details have been provided by Paul Ganderton in a separate
document.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/geographycovid19...

There are a number of versions of “eye-witness of history” where learners record a diary / blog the life
of a student duri...

(Link:
https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2020/04/coronavirus-cases-urban-density-suburbs-healt
h-parks-cities/610210 - ...

Within the first 10 minutes he outlines some of the work he was doing at Kingussie High
School around working in Teams. ...

GeoCapabilities project is underpinned by the idea of ‘powerful disciplinary knowledge’
(PDK). Some more here: https://y...

This is an activity being organised by the BBC’s PM programme:
PM@bbc.co.uk invites us to write a 400-word 'Covid Chronicl...

A thought from Paula Owens as to whether we have spent the last few months in our own
bubbles of life interests, work and...

more rushing to get the school bag ready and running out of the door to begin the journey to
school. For most children the...

Teaching about Covid-19
As I said at the start of this document, I don’t intend to teach about Covid-19 directly. I
thin...

Dr Maria Van Kerkhove from WHO was interviewed at the weekend on the Andrew Marr
show talked about the need for Contact Tr...

F: An early update for the Specifications?
Could it be that the exam specifications will undergo an update, or perhaps gui...

Parts of northern Scotland (including Grampion) have had far fewer recorded cases of
Coronavirus and are better adapted to...

https://intelligence.weforum.org/
Also a quote here from Naomi Klein which may be relevant.
“In moments of crisis, peopl...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/rutger-bregman-our-secret-superpower-is-
our-ability-to-cooperate
Although t...

http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/852.html - includes some useful questions (see earlier
section). We can also learn from th...

Image: Joanne Norcup - used with permission
Adam Wells, writing on Medium suggests that our new kindnesses to each other, ...

We need to prioritise funding for companies that offer carbon neutral or similar activity:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/scie...

A few additional pieces from Neil Ascherson.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/19/after-the-crisis-a-new-...

H: Profiting from the pandemic?
A new section for v5.0 onwards
This is kick-started by a piece from Naomi Klein in ‘The ...

It’s also possible that criminal activity may be carrying on in other ways e.g. drugs,
although the customs officers were ...

A short extract from The Future We Choose by Christian Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac
The year is 2050. "We have been s...

The Gaia Vince books are excellent on how we got to where we are now, and on the power
of language and story and communit...

Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/geographycovid19
https://datapopalliance.org/covid19/#covid19resources - from ...

UNOCHA: @UNOCHA released a new set of humanitarian Covid-19 icons to use when
communicating stories relating to the virus....

The RGS Geography Directions blog had a call for submissions, so presumably pieces will
appear there which may provide us...

three weeks from now while the rest of us are relatively protected at home, tapping on
screens.
Worth reading.
As is thi...

AND FINALLY….
Remember the message in these cartoons….
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Appendix
1. Activity: A dérive developed by Claire Kyndt of King’s Ely
Academic, Walter Benjamin wrote about a figure that...

http://deriveapp.com/s/v2/ - use the Urban Deck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kTukct98vA

Could also use the Keri S...

All views in this document are my own personal views and not those of my employer
or any other organisation I am connected...

Richard Maurice - for pointing me towards the Recovery Curriculum document in
early May
Brendan Conway - for some suggeste...

Image source: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ten-reasons-to-end-the-lockdown-now
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