PROJECT BY DR PHIL WOOD, EMMA RAWLINGS SMITH, SIMON RENSHAW AND MATT POTTER
As the new GCSE specifications for Geography come on stream, there is a huge potential to develop new insights into pedagogy and curriculum to help develop learning. Whilst the new specifications are predominantly focused on subject content, there is still an important space for considering how we develop conceptual understanding as a foundation and structure on which subject knowledge can be built. This website is intended to outline and periodically report on an ongoing action research orientated curriculum project which has the following general aims:
1. To develop an understanding of how students conceptualise 'place' and how this insight can be used to target curriculum development over the period of GCSE study.
2. To develop an understanding of how students' understanding of place emerges over the period of their studies.
3. To develop a set of tools for developing practice and curriculum building through an iterative, classroom-based approach.
Follow the project as it develops at http://aboutplace.weebly.co
As the new GCSE specifications for Geography come on stream, there is a huge potential to develop new insights into pedagogy and curriculum to help develop learning. Whilst the new specifications are predominantly focused on subject content, there is still an important space for considering how we develop conceptual understanding as a foundation and structure on which subject knowledge can be built. This website is intended to outline and periodically report on an ongoing action research orientated curriculum project which has the following general aims:
1. To develop an understanding of how students conceptualise 'place' and how this insight can be used to target curriculum development over the period of GCSE study.
2. To develop an understanding of how students' understanding of place emerges over the period of their studies.
3. To develop a set of tools for developing practice and curriculum building through an iterative, classroom-based approach.
Follow the project as it develops at http://aboutplace.weebly.co