Re: Possible Establishment of an AAG Geography of
Educatio
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?
