GTE - Saturday Session 2

Chaired by Chris Kington

Debbie Moss - Keele University
"How can the Peak District be represented as a place ?" - Cross Curricular fieldwork in Geography and English

Peak District: Gradbach fieldwork
Cross curricular fieldwork with English colleagues.
Using literacy to explore landscape.
Students had to play a role and produce investigations of the local landscape and a poster which displayed their thinking.

Sue Bermingham and Diane Selby - "It started with a story"
Looking at stories in geography.
Ideas for using images - could cut up images and 're-assemble' the landscape.
Getting a chance to visit the locations featured in stories and telling the stories.

"Where the forest meets the sea" - alternative futures.

How do we use stories ?

Start with an outline map. Add details to the map as paragraphs from stories are read. Example of stories from Eritrea was used.

A long standing project of mine is to map the locations of my hundreds of travel books: some fairly obscure.

David Mitchell: "Living Geography"
Chris Kington
The importance of relevance: of young people 'seeing the point'...
John Westaway article in 'Geography'.
Alignment of subjects with government areas of focus: maths with numeracy, arts with creativity.
Geography should perhaps align itself with the idea of sustainability: a major part of Living Geography. Discussion on the views of Alex Standish, who will be attending the GA Conference.

Worth seeking out the new Chris Kington publication (pictured above) - lots of GA involvement in its production.

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