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Good question Ron... Education Speciality Group might be a better name...e.g., see this link for how the Sociology of Education group frames its objectives: http://www.asanet.org/sections/educat.html There is plenty of good work on Geographic Education (ie the practice and teaching of Geography), and this is supported by the Geography Education speciality group. But we are attempting to support, and bring together, people who work on educational systems, institutions, effects, and so on. Our panel discussion, for example, is focused on the emerging impact of GATS on the governance of education systems. Claudia's paper at the AAG, for example, examines the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, and she uses NCLB-and its intersections with urban public schools in particular-as a critical case through which to examine the complex and multi-scalar process of neoliberal advance. So, in short, this is not about 'Geographic education' but 'geographies of education'...hope that makes it clear (if not email me independently)...thanks, Kris At 3:13 PM +0000 3/5/04, R.J.Johnston wrote: >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? >