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Geography education plays a pivotal role in cultivating global awareness and critical thinking. At TCI, we believe that geography class should be an immersive experience where students see the world through a geographer’s eyes. The much-loved Geography Alive! With Geography Alive!
Eric Wolf (1982) laid the theoretical groundwork in his landmark history of how the movement of capital and labor has transformed global relations since the 1400s, dispelling the myth that globalization is a recent phenomenon.
We don't have to go far to see everyday geography and provide fieldwork opportunity pic.twitter.com/y556bjug3r — David Rogers (@davidErogers) September 8, 2024 Reminds me of an activity I do called GlobELY connected where students hunt out globalconnections.
While an individual or group may think that they are an island, the geography teacher in me can see that their island, like everyone else’s, is in the middle of concentric circles of scale. Their personal bubble is surrounded by the local scale, then the regional and national scales and finally being encompassed by the global scale.
She now lives in a farm on the Berkshire Downs and talked about her new life as a farmer but with a background as a geography teacher. Farming and geography complement each other. Farm systems are complex, and there are lots of local / globalconnections to explore. Farmers make the landscape which geographers describe.
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