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Have just reviewed Gaile and Willmott 'American Geography at the Dawn of the 21st century' which ahs a chpater by the Geography Education Speciualty Group (well above the average in size according to the data in Pandit's recent PG paper). That gives its mission statement as 'To promote research on the lifelong development of knowldge of the world through geography, to develop the theory and foster the practice of teaching and learning geography in formal and informal educational contexts; and be an advocate for geographic literacy'. What does that exclude that you want to focus on? On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Kris Olds wrote: > > 5 March 2004 > > Dear Colleagues: > > RE: Possible Establishment of an AAG Geography of Education Specialty Group > > In the light of some interesting new research on 'education', and on > related issues (e.g., regional development, citizenship, > subjectivity, urban change, cultural industries, knowledge > production, intellectual history, services industries, global trade, > neoliberalism, globalization, economic competitiveness), we are > initiating discussions about the possibility of establishing an AAG > Geography of Education Specialty Group. > > As we see it, at this very preliminary stage, a Geography of > Education speciality group would seek to foster the development of > geographical work *on* education (including systems, institutions, > impacts, governance, etc), broadly defined. We also believe that a > Geography of Education specialty group would generate plenty of > synergy with other AAG specialty groups, including the core groups > anchored in sub-disciplines (e.g., economic, urban, political). And, > needless to say, debates about the relationship between education and > societal development will only increase over the next several decades. > > If you are supportive, or curious, or critical, please come to a > shortish meeting on Tuesday March 16th @ 2:45 pm immediately after > panel discussion on Globalization/Trade/Neoliberalism/Higher > Education. Details on this panel are available here: > > http://convention.allacademic.com/aag2004/session_info.html?c_session_id=611&part_id1=11255&dtr_id=2453 > > If you cannot make this meeting, or you are not attending this year's > AAG conference, and you are supportive of the idea of establishing a > Geography of Education specialty group, please email both of us and > we will put you on our contact list. Our contact details are here: > > Kris Olds <[log in to unmask]> > Claudia Hanson Thiem <[log in to unmask]> > > Many thanks! > > With best wishes, > > Kris Olds and Claudia Hanson Thiem > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Kris Olds > Associate Professor > Department of Geography > University of Wisconsin-Madison > 550 N. Park Street, Science Hall > Madison, WI 53706 > USA > Tel: 1-608-262-5685 > Fax: 1-608-265-3991 > Email: [log in to unmask] > Dept: http://www.geography.wisc.edu/faculty/olds.html > SIEG: http://www.wun.ac.uk/economicgeography/ >