The latest GeogPod features Professor David Lambert - my old boss when I worked for the Geographical Association, in discussion with John Lyon.
He talks about his career and his work, and this is very much worth your time listening to it. It would be excellent for teachers at all stages of their careers, but particularly ECTs
He talks about the progress towards being CEO of the Geographical Association.
He joined the Geographical Association twenty years ago and also talks about the changes in the GA which makes it also really useful for the GA Presidents blog.
He discusses the Action Plan for Geography, and the development of the manifesto: a different view. This was a very exciting time for the GA and also for geography.
He also talks about the GeoCapabilities project, which he involved me with.
He mentions his inaugural Professorial lecture, which I attended (and also helped with creating the visuals for) and the idea of powerful knowledge as well as the true value of learning geography and thinking geographically in the anthropocene.
There is a good mention of Alaric Maude being present at Margaret Roberts and Michael Young's debate at the IoE which I was also present at, and remember meeting Alaric. He refers to the five types of knowledge that also became an article by Margaret Roberts as well, which I have referred to before. Powerful knowledge is described as a heuristic - a constant.
He also mentions the debate about decolonising the curriculum and how that connects with these ideas as well and future work in this area. He also talks about a book he has just finished writing with John Morgan: 'Race, Racism and the Geography Curriculum' and the 3 Futures work that he completed.
Some interesting thoughts on the growth of common curricula across multi-academy trusts and the need for teacher agency and the importance of relationships with learners and finding out what they already know.
There is also a mention of work by Zongyi Deng on the importance of considering the context of every teacher and where they are within their career and external constraints.
He finishes by discussing our responsibilities as geography teachers. This is a very important responsibility that we all face, and which recent events have brought into sharp focus. We need to continue to consider areas which are 'political' - climate change is inherently political. Teacher autonomy is vital.
We can focus on places, and community responses.
Some very interesting thoughts on context providing the basis for knowledge being powerful, and also how schools develop their own curriculum and the process of 'curriculum making'.
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