Children, Education and Geography
Rethinking Intersections
Samenvatting
This book examines the intersections between children, education and geography. With a particular focus on children’s geographies and geographies of education, the book draws upon cutting-edge research to consider how geographical education can be enhanced through increased engagement with these fields.
The book is underpinned by the position that the lives of children and young people are inherently geographical, as are educational institutions, systems and processes. The volume explores the ways in which the diverse relationships between children, education and geography can enrich research and work with, and for, children and young people. Chapters in this book consider how in/justices are (re)produced through education. Chapters also explore how insights generated by thinking in, and across, geography and education can be used to support and empower young people in both formal education and in their everyday lives.
Ultimately, this book is written for children and young people. Not as the readership, but as people, often marginalised in decision making at a variety of scales in education, and who, we contend should be at the heart of all educational thinking. The book is of value to undergraduate and post graduate students interested in geography education and children’s geographies, as well as teachers of geography, both new and experienced.
Specificaties
Inhoudsopgave
The child and their (geographical) education
Lauren Hammond, Mary Biddulph, Simon Catling, and John H. McKendrick
Section I: Geographies of education and educational spaces
Geographies of education at macro-, meso- and micro-scales: Young people and international student mobility
Johanna Waters and Rachel Brooks
Geographies of education spaces: Architecture, materialities, power, and identity
Peter Kraftl
Children’s geographies and schools: Beyond the mandated curriculum
John H. McKendrick
Section II: Children’s geographies and their significance in, and to, everyday life and education
Connecting children’s and young people’s geographies and geography education: Why this matters to and for children, education and society
Mary Biddulph, Peter Hopkins, and Simon Tate
Becoming acquainted: Aspects of diversity in children’s geographies
Simon Catling and Susan Pike
Student voice, democratic education, and geography: Reflecting on the findings of a survey of undergraduate geography students
Lauren Hammond and Grace Healy
The value of geography to an individual’s education
David Lambert and Kelly León
Young people’s geographies, schooling, and the curriculum problem: Where have all the cool places gone?
John Morgan
Section III: Progressive geographies in education
De/colonizing the (geography) curriculum
Fatima Pirbhai-Illich and Fran Martin
Climate Change Education: Following the information
Steve Puttick, Paloma Chandrachud, Rahul Chopra, James Robson, Sanjana Singh, and Isobel Talks
Expanding students’ concept of ‘home’: teaching migration with a geographic capabilities approach
David Mitchell and Tine Béneker
Looking closely for environmental learning: Citizen science and environmental sustainability education
Ria Dunkley
Paying attention with more-than-human worlds: Field-visiting
Helen Clarke and Sharon Witt
Conclusion
Moving forwards: Strengthening engagement across the intersections between children, education, and geography
John H. McKendrick, Simon Catling, Mary Biddulph, and Lauren Hammond
