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The Geography Teaching Adventure

Living Geography

What role might geography teaching play? What stories do we tell about geography itself? The book revisits an older vision of geography that is much bigger than exams and memorising information: dreams of adventure and discovery. What geographical stories do we tell about the world?

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Experience the World with the Latest Edition of Geography Alive!

TCI

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!

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Learn more about: How has Federalism Shaped (and Constrained) Native American Political Rights?

Political Science Now

Her research and teaching interests include American political development, political history, voting and elections, state politics, political geography, sovereignty, Native American political rights, political parties, partisanship, and political institutions. She specializes in American politics.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could play Fantasy Geography. And so on… . government as well.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

The Hechinger Report

It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in. The study, “ A Kindergarten Lottery Evaluation of Core Knowledge Charter Schools: Should Building General Knowledge Have a Central Role in Educational and Social Science Research and Policy? ”

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Congratulations to Rafael

Living Geography

It means entering the “Olympus” of the greats of geography, which includes Walter Christaller, Yi-Fu Tuan, David Harvey and others. I've been fortunate to work with Miguel on a whole range of ERASMUS projects over the years, and I hope to be working on something with him later in the year.

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Psychology as a school subject - what are the benefits?

Jonathan Firth

Why would we teach learners about the external world – history, geography, chemistry, and so forth – but never teach them about what is happening in their own minds, or those of others? In terms of methodology it leans heavily on experiments, and also makes extensive use of social science methods such as interviews.