Over the last month I have been writing a contribution for the Primary Geography & ICT section of the Geography Teaching Today website - the full text should appear on the web in late December/ early January. I have become interested in thinking about how we use our everyday experience of the world to engage children in geographical learning. The following extract is a quote from the materials that will appear on the GTT website.
Everyday Geography
An exciting and meaningful debate is currently taking place within the geography community about whether we engage effectively with our own and children’s everyday experiences of the world. If you read Primary Geography (Autumn 2006) you might have seen Fran Martin’s article entitled `Everyday Geography’. I would like to use this article as a starting point for reflection on what we teach in primary geography and how we can make this more meaningful for pupils.
In the article, Fran describes an activity that she carries out with her students. This is something that you might want to try now:
`Sit and think for a moment.
If you remember the geography you were taught at school what comes to mind?
Now think about the geographical experiences you have in your everyday life.
How did your own experience compare with Fran’s?
How often do you start from either your own experience of the world or from the children’s direct experience of their world?
Find out more … If you are a member of the GA you will have the Autumn edition of the magazine in which the article appeared. When the full version of this distance learning material appears on the GTT website you should be able to download a pdf copy of the article from the web.
http://www.geographyteachingtoday.org.uk/
Everyday Geography
An exciting and meaningful debate is currently taking place within the geography community about whether we engage effectively with our own and children’s everyday experiences of the world. If you read Primary Geography (Autumn 2006) you might have seen Fran Martin’s article entitled `Everyday Geography’. I would like to use this article as a starting point for reflection on what we teach in primary geography and how we can make this more meaningful for pupils.
In the article, Fran describes an activity that she carries out with her students. This is something that you might want to try now:
`Sit and think for a moment.
If you remember the geography you were taught at school what comes to mind?
Now think about the geographical experiences you have in your everyday life.
How did your own experience compare with Fran’s?
How often do you start from either your own experience of the world or from the children’s direct experience of their world?
Find out more … If you are a member of the GA you will have the Autumn edition of the magazine in which the article appeared. When the full version of this distance learning material appears on the GTT website you should be able to download a pdf copy of the article from the web.
http://www.geographyteachingtoday.org.uk/
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