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I went down to UCL today to speak to this year's PGCE cohort: the next generation of geography teachers. This is always a privilege as I know they have limited time, and David Mitchell and colleagues introduce them to a whole range of experts. Lots of interest in the tools and thinking that I shared. Main message was to try to be "creatively subversive" within the constraints of the school in which they will find themselves teaching and its systems, and the degree of teacher agency they will enj
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