Description
Book SynopsisPowerful Primary Geography: A Toolkit for 21st-Century Learning explores the need for children to understand the modern world and their place in it. Dedicated to helping teachers inspire children's love of place, nature and geographical adventures through facilitating children's voice and developing their agency, this book explores the way playful opportunities can be created for children to learn how to think geographically, to solve real-life problems and to apply their learning in meaningful ways to the world around them.
Based on the very latest research, Powerful Primary Geography helps children understand change, conflict and contemporary issues influencing their current and future lives and covers topics such as:
Weather and climate change
Sustainability
Engaging in their local and global community
Graphicacy, map work and visual literacy
Understanding geography through the arts.
Including several case studies from
Trade Review
"This is a book which is excellent on many different levels. It sets out a broad vision of geography as a learning journey which will take today’s pupils to the final decades of the present century. The text is well structured and underpinned by a clear sense of values and purpose." - Dr Stephen Scoffham, Teaching Geography
"I look forward immensely to using this book. Anne Dolan and all the schools ho contributed to this wonderful book are to be commended for their vision, commitment and hope to make teaching geography personal, political, and powerful." - Paula Galvin, INTOUCH
"This book stands as a ground-breaking contribution to the teaching, learning and researching of primary geography education. It aids educators to reflect critically on their own practices, current global and local issues, and how these can be addressed meaningfully in their future educational practices. It should make for essential reading for all interested in geography education, climate change education, sustainability education and in education which positions children’s agency and action to the forefront more broadly." - Joe Usher, Irish Educational Studies
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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- Powerful primary geography: Setting the scene
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- Powerful geographical thinking: Initiating investigations and enquiry-based learning
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- Teaching powerful geography through place
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- Playful approaches to powerful geography: Games, artefacts and fun
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- Teaching geography powerfully through topics: Weather and climate change
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- Teaching powerful geography through graphicacy, map work and visual literacy
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- Teaching powerful geography through the arts
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- Powerful geography: Teaching citizenship, global learning and the Sustainable Development Goals
Appendix 1: Card-sorting activity for teaching about volcanoes
Appendix 2: Weather glossary
Index
