This project, supported by the European Commission, focuses on enhancing geographical knowledge, including place context, global concepts, and relational thinking. It emphasizes the importance of applying geographic principles for analysis and problem-solving in various social, economic, and environmental contexts. The project aims to foster complex understanding of geography as a discipline, reflecting evolving and often contested concepts.

1. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This Web site reflects the views only of the authors,
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Project partners
Twycross
School
http://www.geocapabilities.org
GeoCapabilities
Geography as PDK
(Powerful Disciplinary Knowledge)

2. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This Web site reflects the views only of the authors,
and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Project partners
Twycross
School
http://www.geocapabilities.org
Deep descriptive ‘world knowledge’
that includes:
• countries, capitals, etc. -
providing place and locational
context
• substantive concepts extending
understanding of (for example)
rivers and mountains; also
global wind patterns,
distribution of populations and
energy sources, and the
characteristics of world biomes,
cultures, and religions.

3. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This Web site reflects the views only of the authors,
and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Project partners
Twycross
School
http://www.geocapabilities.org
Relational thinking that includes:
• theories and concepts such
as place and space, the local
and the global, the human
and the physical
environment, and
• notions of interdependence
and spatial interaction.
Being derived from the
discipline, concepts like place,
space and environment are
complex, evolving and often
contested.

4. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This Web site reflects the views only of the authors,
and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.
Project partners
Twycross
School
http://www.geocapabilities.org
Applied thinking that includes:
• using geographical facts, principles
and concepts for analysis, problem
solving, prediction and modeling of
alternative social, economic and
environmental futures in particular
place contexts.
• This draws on a range of generic
skills developed through
appropriate pedagogic approaches
such as decision making
exercises, as well as intellectual
skills such as evaluation,
speculation, imagination, and
argument.