Geography in focus : teaching and learning in issues-based classrooms /
Geography in focus : teaching and learning in issues-based classrooms /
Teaching and learning in issues-based classrooms
edited by Mike Taylor, Louise Richards and John Morgan.
- xiii, 151 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Abbreviations -- 1. Geography and social inquiry: an effective tag team? -- 2. Subject-specific literacy: reappraising the role of reading and writing in New Zealand geography classrooms -- 3. Concepts and conceptual understanding in issues-based geography -- 4. The development sector in the geography classroom -- 5. Adjusting the focus of perspectives in school geography -- 6. 'Who, what, where, when, why and how?': using simple questions to spark geographical imaginations -- 7. Advancing scholarship / scholarship in geography classrooms -- 8. Geography education in the future, tense -- Endnotes -- Contributors -- Index.
"This book is a comprehensive and stimulating discussion of issues-based geography education in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is an essential read for geography teachers and educators from the wider social sciences. Geography as a subject gets little attention in curriculum and assessment literature. Seeking to address that gap, the authors - teachers and academic practitioners - have thought deeply about the complexities and limitations of issues-based approaches. This book is not intended to offer strategies for teaching but the voices of teachers and the challenges of classroom practice come through strongly." --Publisher's website.
9781927231708 1927231701
Geography--Study and teaching (Secondary)--New Zealand
Classroom environment--New Zealand
G73 / G464 2015
910.71293
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Abbreviations -- 1. Geography and social inquiry: an effective tag team? -- 2. Subject-specific literacy: reappraising the role of reading and writing in New Zealand geography classrooms -- 3. Concepts and conceptual understanding in issues-based geography -- 4. The development sector in the geography classroom -- 5. Adjusting the focus of perspectives in school geography -- 6. 'Who, what, where, when, why and how?': using simple questions to spark geographical imaginations -- 7. Advancing scholarship / scholarship in geography classrooms -- 8. Geography education in the future, tense -- Endnotes -- Contributors -- Index.
"This book is a comprehensive and stimulating discussion of issues-based geography education in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is an essential read for geography teachers and educators from the wider social sciences. Geography as a subject gets little attention in curriculum and assessment literature. Seeking to address that gap, the authors - teachers and academic practitioners - have thought deeply about the complexities and limitations of issues-based approaches. This book is not intended to offer strategies for teaching but the voices of teachers and the challenges of classroom practice come through strongly." --Publisher's website.
9781927231708 1927231701
Geography--Study and teaching (Secondary)--New Zealand
Classroom environment--New Zealand
G73 / G464 2015
910.71293