A new article has been published (open access) exploring the connections between curriculum thinking and teacher agency.
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A useful quote from the article, referencing the work of Margaret Roberts:
Combining and relating different types of knowledge, such as conceptual and theoretical knowledge with substantive, experiential and indigenous knowledges canlead to a powerful geographical education.
This is only possible if, as Roberts (2017) suggests, teachers make connections between students’ everyday knowledge andschool geography, practise geography in the classroom and in the field, and giveyoung people the space to debate and discuss geography together. Enacting enquiry-based pedagogical practices that promote geographical thinking and critical understanding are ultimately powerful, if the transformative effect of geography education endures in the mind of the student into adult life (Roberts, 2023a).
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Uwe Krause, Emma Rawlings Smith, Radka Flajšhans Nedbalova, Xueying He, Yujing He, Naoyuki Ito, Milton Milaras, Jayeon Yang, Martin Hanus & Tine Béneker (2025)
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