All,
First of all, I'd like to thank the 9 speakers and 30 or so attendees of
the CGF meeting in coventry for an enjoyable and stimulating day. I don't
really feel its my place to give a review of proceedings, since I was so
closely involved in organising the meeting - I'll leave that task to
others. If anyone is interested, the position papers are on-line at:
http://www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/crit-geog-forum/files/coventry.htm
The full version Pam Shurmer-Smith's paper 'The theft of ideas' and Duncan
Fuller's paper will hopefully appear shortly.
As discussed at the CGF meeting afterwards, a similar workshop event or a
bigger residential meeting would be welcome. The workshop format seemed to
work well.
In response to Tim's point 7:
> 7) we need some bright sparks somewhere to begin organising another event
> to keep the momentum up. The discussions of critical pedagogy prompted by
> some of the papers at Coventry led many to believe that a few days
> dedicated to teaching methods, pedagogy, links to the A level syllabus and
> secondary education in general might be time well spent.
The third session of the day, 'Teaching critical geographies', certainly
raised a few issues that do need to be explored further and a 1/2 day
session co-sponsored by the GA and HESG would be a worthy pursuit. If
anyone is interested in organising such an event, now is an opportune time.
best wishes,
Rob
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Dr Rob Kitchin,
Department of Geography,
National University of Ireland,
Maynooth,
County Kildare,
Ireland.
Tel: +353 1 708 3372
Fax: +353 1 708 3573
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