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...