Living Geography

MARCH 13, 2025

A part-time maternity cover teaching Geography in Kings Ely Senior school is currently available from September. The post is part time to cover maternity leave for the whole of the 2025/26 academic year. A job opportunity for you to work at my school. This would involve Deadline to apply is 19th of March. Details are here.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. Weve all been there. Additional activities reinforced the lessons.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 7, 2024

GEO Live: Future Changemakers will take place on Thursday 17 April 2025 at the GA Annual Conference and Exhibition in Oxford. This programme, designed specially for students aged 1418, will enthuse them about geography and its wide-ranging applications, enable them to think beyond school toward university and possible careers in geography.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

He introduced himself to me by showing me the cover of 'Why Study Geography?' It was a pleasure to chat to Petr Knecht: from the University of Ostrava. on his phone and asking me whether that was me who'd written the book. He then showed me articles on Google Scholar where my book was referenced in his work and that of others.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

GA press release says: Despite growing diversity of the geography GCSE cohort, at A level and at university geography is one of the least diverse of all subjects. The subject, and its institutions, are not serving all geography teachers nor all young people who could benefit from studying geography. Change is needed.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 24, 2025

GTE = Geography Teacher Educators. The GTE Conference is an event I have attended periodically since 2009: the first time I attended, which was when I joined the Geographical Association. Until then I'd been unaware of it, and it was rare to see a teacher there.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The international "Night of Geography", promoted by EUGEO and IGU , will be held on April 4th 2025. I enjoyed presenting last year and had some good people turn out to watch my session. Details are here for those who are interested. If you'd like to propose a session the form is here.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The first thing was to book for the Geography Teacher Educators' Conference 2025. The aim is to share best practice ideas and current research being done in geography education including masters level and other initiatives and project work, relevant to training geography teachers. This is taking place at St.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In our response we signal the value of a geographical education for all young people, the strengths of the current provision, and areas in need of attention for the geography curriculum. Geography is a subject that develops young people’s curiosity and helps them to apply that curiosity and learning in real-world contexts.

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Our hybrid conference, scheduled for May 2, 2025 , will be held in person at the Graduate Center in Manhattan and online via Zoom. Please submit abstracts in PDF format to cunyclassicsconference@gmail.com no later than January 31, 2025. Notifications to all applicants will be sent by February 28, 2025.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

2025), continue to refine our understanding of how humans and felines have interacted across time and geography. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abg0221 These studies, along with Han et al. 1 Han, Y., Doherty, S., Jamieson, A. Martins, S. Fan, W., … Luo, S.-J.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 12, 2025

The Financial Times had a range of interesting articles this weekend, but one in particular was relevant for Geography. Henry Mance looks at the AMOC: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. The utterly plausible case that climate change makes London much colder" by @henrymance for @FinancialTimes : [link] Prof Michael E.

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Living Geography

MARCH 26, 2025

Well, it was over a year ago that we started work on the 4th edition of the Collins textbook to support the teaching of the updated Cambridge iGCSE Geography specification (0460). The book is published by Collins (in 2025 of course) Paperback, 368pp ISBN: 978-0-00-872576-1 Price: 28.99

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Living Geography

JANUARY 9, 2025

In 2025, for the first time in nearly a decade, science will be the major focus of the OECDs program for international student assessment (Pisa) which runs every three years (give or take Covid interruptions), its focus rotating between reading, maths and science. Climate change impacts every area of society and our lives, she says.

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Geography Teacher Sharing

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Explored Batam Pantai Sekoto Beachfront area to learn about the mangrove in this area as part of the field study for Geography Symposium 2025. The programme was hosted by a member from Free the Sea – part of the WIK Group. We looked into the impact of coastal erosion as well as the effects of the loss of this mangrove area.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

My session took place after the morning break on Day 2. I spoke about the work we had done at King's Ely Prep to develop a new unit on Samantha Harvey's 'Orbital'. This was still a work in progress, but has gone down well so far, and there is more to come in the final 2 weeks of this half term.

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Living Geography

AUGUST 6, 2024

By the start of September 2025 and the new academic year, a full suite of resources will be available for Primary Geography on the Oak National website. These will all be free to download. There are 6 units for each of years 1-6. 36 units all fully resourced with slide decks, worksheets, quizzes and videos.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As you (hopefully) know, I launched a new weekly Substack newsletter in the first week of 2025. There are also two posts which are relevant to my Geography in/on Film Blog on the representation of London in film. You can subscribe to it here. Will Fry has an excellent Substack called Changing Places. I'll mention them over there.

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Does the French Revolution feel like it only happened yesterday? Are you struggling to persuade colleagues, friends, significant others that Boethius is actually quite interesting? All papers should last no more than 20 minutes and will be followed by a Q&A.

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Living Geography

MARCH 2, 2025

This June, the GA Branch is running another GeogMeet. This will be the seventh Geog-Meet; held online in June this year. Deadlines for submission proposals are on Friday 28th March. Successful submission proposals will be asked to produce their presentations by the end of May. The evening event will be held in June.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 25, 2025

I arrived nicely on time for GTE after a journey down from Norfolk and the first person I saw was Margaret Roberts. Always a pleasure. I'd been to St. Mary's University of London before, for an ERASMUS project meeting. The first session in the first afternoon of GTE had the theme of Sustainable Futures.

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Political Science Now

JANUARY 17, 2025

Syed Hossain received his bachelors degree with a major in political science and minor in geography, as well as a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree, from the University of Montana. Please join us in congratulating the 2025-2026 class of fellows.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

The latest book by geography teacher Richard Bustin was published by Crown House Publishing in October 2024. It embraces in how geography is understood and expressed in national school standards. The capabilities approach helps geography educators everywhere to articulate the importance of children learning how to think geographically.

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Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Deadline The deadline for submitting ALL proposals for the 2025 Annual Meeting is Friday, April 5, 2024 at 11:59 P.M. (ET). There you will find important information pertaining to the requirements for making a submission, plus links to guidelines and other resources from our program committee on submitting a proposal for the Annual Meeting.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The first session of the 2nd day was rounded off by the ESRI Education team of Katie Hall and David Morgan. I had enjoyed their company on the first day as we tried to create a sustainable community on a desert island. They had been on the road all week in their ongoing efforts to bring GIS to the UK. They brought us up to speed with their work.

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Living Geography

MARCH 28, 2024

I've been involved in the creation of the Oak National Primary Geography resources for KS1 and 2. It's now been announced that the GA is the curriculum partner for the KS3 resources, which will be available by September 2025. Again via the GA Newsletter. These are emerging over on the Oak site.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 1, 2025

What events are you intending to attend in 2025? David Alcock has posted on the GA Blog about the importance of attending conferences, including the Geographical Association conference of course.

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Living Geography

APRIL 2, 2024

I'm sorry not to be there for Denise Freeman's Presidential lecture, and catching up with the whole geography community, and also a chance to congratulate Steve Brace in person for his recent appointment as Chief Executive of the GA. I'd prepared a session on Jay Owens' book 'Dust' for the Geography Book Club session on Thursday.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 25, 2025

These were identified by the World Economic Forum's 'Global risk Report 2025' as a global risk. Globally, the number of people aged 65 and older is expected to increase by 36%, from 857 million in 2025 to 1.2 Countries are termed super-ageing or superaged when over 20% of their populations are over 65 years old. billion in 2035.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 22, 2025

Learn more [link] via @UNDRR pic.twitter.com/qeWLNE5cWb UN Biodiversity (@UNBiodiversity) January 20, 2025 From UN Disaster Risk Reduction. It also includes new analysis looking at the number of dangerous heat days added by climate change in 2024 and global resolutions for 2025 to work toward a safer, more sustainable world.

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Living Geography

MARCH 13, 2025

He references the Food Foundation's January 2025 report: The Broken Plate which looks at our food system, and its problems. Think geopolitical downturn, the spread of war and overt conflicts, and disinformation-led public panics. See the statistic below for example.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

Marvin Lopez is executive director of the California Center on Teaching Careers, which has plans to open a rural bilingual teacher residency program in 2025. Geography is another hardship for potential bilingual educators. He says that the challenges in increasing the bilingual teacher pipeline are multifaceted.

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O-Level Geography

MARCH 28, 2025

magnitude earthquake struck Myammar and affected Bangkok, Thailand, Hanoi, Vietnam and China on 28 Mar 2025. Where is the epicentre? How deep was the focus? What was the extent of damage? Why are preparedness measures important in disaster risk management? Report of the earthquake on facebook and instagram.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

At the end of January 2025, over 4,300 blocks have had solar panels installed to power common services such as lifts, lights, and water pumps in HDB estates. Heat-reflective paint will be applied to all existing Housing and Development Board (HDB) estates as part of efforts to reduce urban heat and enhance residents' comfort.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

It is led by Becky Kitchen and the course fee includes a whole range of additional benefits including GA membership and delegate fees for the 2025 GA Conference at Oxford Brookes University. This eight-week online course is designed for geography trainees who haven’t previously studied a geography (or a similar) degree.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 9, 2025

gii.cesionline.org gt find by Brendan Conway excellrnt for post16 superpowers @jbwgeog.bsky.social [image or embed] Bob Lang ( @boblanggeog.bsky.social ) January 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM The Global Influence Index (GII) measures the influence of both the U.S. and China in 191 countries. China competitive landscape.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This is only possible if, as Roberts (2017) suggests, teachers make connections between students everyday knowledge andschool geography, practise geography in the classroom and in the field, and giveyoung people the space to debate and discuss geography together.

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