Geography in Education

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Where is it? Exploring the place of geography in the curriculum

About. A set of materials exploring the importance of geography in the curriculum, and other subjects it relates to.

Pedagogical content. This unit looks at the contribution that geography can make in the education of young people and the characteristics and purpose of geography as a subject. (edit)

Resource details
Title Geography in Education
Topic [[Topics/Geography in Education|Geography in Education]]
Teaching approach

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Learning Objectives

The learning outcomes of this unit are:
* review some of the recent debates about the place of geography in the school curriculum;
* consider the different aims of geographical education;
* links for further study.

Format / structure

A web-activity on the OpenLearn site which includes 4 PDFs including a quiz.

Subject

[[Resources/Geography|Geography]],  [[Resources/Cross-curricular|Cross-curricular]]

Age of students / grade

[[Resources/NA|NA]],  [[Resources/Higher|Higher]]


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