FINAL Call for Papers:
We are particularly keen to include some short papers that focus on specific aspects of the teaching to undergraduate geographers for/about/using the geographies of children and youth. These short papers would focus on particular challenges (encountered, addressed) in teaching the geographies of children and youth and would last for around 10 minutes. Our (revised) plan is to include a few very short papers in the middle of the session.
Please contact John (by email, or 0141 331 8221) to discuss your ideas. We are keen to finalise the session details and would be grateful to receive your abstract this week.
Event: Annual International Conference of the RGS-IBG
Details: London, August 30 – September 2 2016
Session title: Educating undergraduate geographers for/about/using the geographies of children and youth
Sponsors: Children, Youth and Families Research Group and the Higher Education Research Group (of RGS-IBG)
Session convenors: John H. McKendrick (Glasgow Caledonian University) and Derek France (University of Chester)
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Deadline for Abstracts: Wednesday 10th February 2016
Abstract:
It is almost twenty years since the Journal of Geography in Higher Education’s published Hugh Matthews’, The geography of children: some ethical and methodological considerations for project and dissertation work (Matthews, 1998), soon followed by his co-authored paper with Faith Tucker on Consulting Children (Matthews and Tucker, 2000). Viewed in context, these papers were part of an emergent field of geographical study, which together with the impetus provided by the breadth of geographical research in the ESRC’s 5-16 programme and the emergence, initially as a Working Group, of the RGS-IBG’s Geographies of Children, Youth and Families Research Group, laid the foundations of what has flourished into an established sub-discipline of geography in the UK and beyond. Although the approaches, positions and research priorities of this sub-field have been challenged in recent years, as might be expected for a maturing field (e.g. Robson et al., 2013; Holloway, 2014), what is less clear is an understanding of the ways, and extent, to which the geographies of children and youth are embedded in the education of students of geography in higher education.
This session invites contributions, which explore the extent to which, and ways in which, undergraduate geography students:
• Engage with the lives of children and youth through their studies (about children and youth);
• Apply their geographical learning to improve the lives of children and youth (for children and youth); and
• Utilise understanding of the lives of children and youth to enhance their geographical understanding (using children and youth).
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