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Time: 9 hours Level: Intermediate
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Introduction Resource
- This unit explores school geography, focusing upon how geography is currently being taught and understood. While studying this unit you will read about the significance of geography as a subject, considering...
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1.1 Chasms and great divides: can we imagine a world without geography? Resource
- Many school systems around the world do not have geography with the status of a separate subject. Schools in England and Wales are different. Here, geography is a national curriculum subject (5–14 years)...
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2.1 The significance of geography as a subject Resource
- It has been argued that geography ‘has been hijacked by environmentalists’. Following the publication of his original article, ‘Constructing a value map’ (see under the link below), Alex Standish (a former...
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| | 3 Thinking geographically
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| | 4 Geography's educational power
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| | References and Acknowledgements
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