Fantastic to see geographers building on (stealing? https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😉" title="Zwinkerndes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Zwinkerndes Gesicht">) ideas from Teaching History...

If you happen to have a subscription to to Teaching Geography, Sarah’s article about Tim Marshall’s ‘Prisoners of Geography’ is well-worth reading (has implications for history planning too). https://twitter.com/sarah_geography/status/1273963862912651266">https://twitter.com/sarah_geo...

In a nutshell, the article considers how ‘popular geography’ books are approached when teachers plan schemes of work.

Sarah shows that it’s vital to properly contextualise a book like Prisoners of Geogrpahy (Marshall draws on the work of Mackinder, a late-C19th imperialist...).

In particular, by equipping students with the knowledge of Marshall and Mackiner’s intellextual contexts, she helped students see the book for what it was: a *theory* about geopolitics, not a neural silo of facts (which obviously can’t exist anyway...).

Sarah’s work on how geography teachers can use texts - and how texts shape and re-shape students epistemological ideas of ‘what’ geography is - is genuinely brilliant.

It deserves a much larger audience. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😊" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit lächelnden Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit lächelnden Augen">