Teaching and Learning Geography

Daniella Tilbury, Michael Williams041514244X, 9780415142441, 9780203282502

This book provides a clear overview of current thinking on the teaching and learning of geography, and is an ideal companion to students beginning a career in teaching the subject in secondary schools. The chapters bridge both theory and practice, and focus on the continuities while setting them in the context of the changing curriculum.

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Table of contents :
Book Cover……Page 1
Title……Page 4
Contents……Page 5
List of figures……Page 9
List of tables……Page 11
Notes on contributors……Page 12
List of abbreviations……Page 16
Introduction……Page 18
The place of geography in the school curriculum: an historical overview 1886 1976……Page 24
The great debate and 1988……Page 32
Geographical education in the 1990s……Page 42
Curriculum planning and course development: a matter of professional judgement……Page 52
The scope of school geography: a medium for education……Page 66
Progression and transition in a coherent geography curriculum……Page 76
Differentiation in teaching and learning geography……Page 86
Cross-curricular concerns in geography: Earth science and physical geography……Page 97
Cross-curricular concerns in geography: citizenship and economic and industrial understanding……Page 110
Environmental education and development education: teaching geography for a sustainable world……Page 122
Equal opportunity and the teaching of geography……Page 134
Instructional design……Page 150
Cognitive acceleration in geographical education……Page 160
Language and learning in geography……Page 171
Learning through maps……Page 185
Ethnocentric bias in geography textbooks: a framework for reconstruction……Page 197
Teaching and learning through fieldwork……Page 206
Using information technology and new technologies in geography……Page 219
Teaching about the local community: using first-hand experience……Page 235
The European dimension in primary education……Page 248
Towards a critical school geography……Page 258
Principles of pupil assessment……Page 272
Assessment in the primary school……Page 283
Teacher assessment in the National Curriculum……Page 292
Geography and the GCSE……Page 304
Student assessment in geography post 16……Page 315
Index……Page 327