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Geography in focus : teaching and learning in issues-based classrooms / edited by Mike Taylor, Louise Richards and John Morgan.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Wellington, New Zealand : NZCER Press, New Zealand Council for Educational Research, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xiii, 151 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781927231708
  • 1927231701
Other title:
  • Teaching and learning in issues-based classrooms
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 910.71293 23
LOC classification:
  • G73 G464 2015
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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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.

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