Engaging geography
vi. border crossings: geographies across universities and schools.
Outline
Once upon a time … university and pre-university geography were closely connected in the British system. Indeed, as recently as the mid-1980s university geographers played a central role in determining the old O and A level syllabi (both content and assessment). However, over the last twenty years pre-university geography has lost significant points of connection with post-18 geography …
This seminar hopes to cross the borders (Castree et al, 2007) between these different spheres of geographical education, and explore the potential for collaborative ventures that seek to embed a collective vision of (public) geography futures, taking inspiration from such ventures as the ‘Juicy Geography’, and ‘Living Geography’ initiatives.
Arrangements
Date: Saturday 13th November 2010
Venue: Soar Valley College, Leicester [link]
Registration costs: £0
Registration: please download and fill out the form available at http://engaginggeography.wordpress.com/2-seminars/2e-geographies-in-schools/ and send it in ASAP. This is also the application for travel bursaries.
Convenors: Kye Askins (Northumbria University), Gavin Brown (University of Leicester) & Simon Renshaw (Soar Valley College)
NB One key hope is to attract a mix of teachers, academics, educators and yes even some school and university students!! Thus we intend all speakers to keep to 15 – 20 min max to enable more lively debate …
Daily Planner
9.30–10.00: REGISTRATION
10.00–11.15: LESSON ONE: View from School
• Noel Jenkins: Juicy Geography
• Young People’s Geographies project
• Soar Valley students: imagining university
Each speaker/group has 15/20 mins then time to debate round room to raise some key issues for us so far …
11.15–11.30: MORNING BREAK
11.30–12.30: LESSON TWO: Across the divide
• John Lyon: Geographical Association
• Steve Brace: Royal Geographical Society
A conversation around enabling better conversations across the borders: 15/20mins talk from speakers on their organisations’ role and ambitions and practical projects/initiatives, then open up again to wider questions/discussion
12.30–1.00: LESSON THREE: Going back in …
Geography Ambassador experiences (Leicester University students / school teachers of schools they went to)
1.00-2.00: LUNCH BREAK (Wet play if raining)
2.00-3.00: LESSON FOUR: Obvious overlaps ..?
• Geography editor(s) outline journal vision/potential for better conversations across school/Uni
• Margaret Roberts on the role of teacher training
15/20 mins each … and of course open up to Q&A / wider chat
3.00-4.00: LESSON FIVE: participant-directed learning time
Break out into small groups – to chat about what’s been covered and each group to identify/highlight/suggest
• key themes emerging from their experiences/the day
• potential ways forward to continue finding/acting on points of connection
4.00–4.30: FINAL LESSON
Feedback from groups and round up of day
4.30: HOME TIME
(Unless participants are sleeping over in Leicester, then we will see about a local restaurant excursion
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