David Roberts, PhDCALL FOR SYLLABI: TEACHING GEOGRAPHY CRITICALLY
AAG 2014
Graduate students and faculty are often given introductory courses to
teach that may not align exactly with our areas of expertise or
political focus. But teaching these courses still presents an
opportunity to help students develop a critical perspective about the
world we live in. Our question for this panel session is: how do we
teach geography critically?
We are issuing a call for syllabi as grounds for a collaborative
exploration of how we make geographic instruction critical. We want to
learn from and with our peers, and together come up with ways to
improve our own critical teaching.
During this session, people who have developed intro-level
undergraduate critical geography classes will share their syllabi and
their strategies with other folks who want to get better at teaching
this stuff. We want to hear the meaty specifics about what you are
doing in your course. What texts do you use? What assignments do you
give? How do you structure your class sessions? More broadly, how do
you teach about globalization, inequality, borders, and other critical
concepts? And ? how do you get your students to read, write, and
engage about these things in class?
Based on the syllabi we receive through this call, we will select
people to present their classes in an informal panel format. We will
use this session to work in groups to jointly develop good
assignments, and to think though applying critical teaching methods to
our courses. We envision a lively session of practical import for
teachers of geography. If you?re interested in teaching critically,
please join us.
Submissions can include syllabi or individual assignments. Before we
arrive in Tampa, we will ask contributors to also produce a brief
explanation of specific ideas, strategies or experiences that relate
to the materials they?ve submitted, that can further our collective
inquiry.
Please send your syllabi to Amanda Huron ([log in to unmask]),
Beatriz Bustos ([log in to unmask]) and Jesse Goldstein
([log in to unmask]) by November 16, 2013.
Urban Studies Program
Innis College
University of Toronto
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