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Fantastic to see geographers building on (stealing? 
) ideas from Teaching History...
If you happen to have a subscription to to Teaching Geography, Sarahâs article about Tim Marshallâs âPrisoners of Geographyâ is well-worth reading (has implications for history planning too). https://twitter.com/sarah_geography/status/1273963862912651266
) ideas from Teaching History...If you happen to have a subscription to to Teaching Geography, Sarahâs article about Tim Marshallâs âPrisoners of Geographyâ is well-worth reading (has implications for history planning too). https://twitter.com/sarah_geography/status/1273963862912651266
In a nutshell, the article considers how âpopular geographyâ books are approached when teachers plan schemes of work.
Sarah shows that itâs vital to properly contextualise a book like Prisoners of Geogrpahy (Marshall draws on the work of Mackinder, a late-C19th imperialist...).
Sarah shows that itâs 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 Mackinerâs intellextual contexts, she helped students see the book for what it was: a *theory* about geopolitics, not a neural silo of facts (which obviously canât exist anyway...).
Sarahâs work on how geography teachers can use texts - and how texts shape and re-shape students epistemological ideas of âwhatâ geography is - is genuinely brilliant.
It deserves a much larger audience.
It deserves a much larger audience.
