Leeds Curriculum Presentation

Over to Leeds for a keynote at the Leeds Geography Conference.

Thanks to colleagues at the event for their input.

We were thinking about the nature of the choices that determine the geography curriculum that is taught at schools. About how our interests are reflected in the curriculum. About the way that student experiences are enabled. About whether to start the process of change now or wait to hear what emerges. About the extent of prescription there is likely to be....

Here is the result of the post it notes that we filled in with the things that we wanted to keep, along with the number of people who said them:


Less physical / human and more interconnected units.
Globalisation x 5
Climate Change x 4
Energy Futures x 5
Development
Mapskills x 5
Studies of Place x 3
Hazards x 5
Settlement
Ecosystems / Natural Environment
Population x 4
Coastal Environments x 3
Migration x 5
Tourism
Crime
Urban Issues
Setting the local geography to the school
Urban regeneration x 3
Transport
Atmosphere and Oceans
Conflict
Consumption
Environmental Change - Geomorphology
Geology and Human interactions
Food Issues
Mapskills inc GIS x 2
Football
Fashion
World Geography to locate future case studies
Local Landscapes x 2
Place: Yorkshire
Europe: EU Issues
Fieldwork Enquiry
Trade & Interrelationships
Natural Environment
Resources and Sustainability 
Conservation of wildlife, nature and indigenous people
Superpowers
Current issues in the world that are linked to geography
Geography using ICT


Here's an electronic version of the presentation that I used...
The [new] Geography Curriculum for Leeds
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Thanks to Garth for the invitation, and for the plug for the blog...

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