Via David Storey
A good piece from Demian Hommel in EdSurge from earlier in the month.
In the piece, Demian explores how his students at university level come to appreciate the power of the course and the discipline they are studying....
It is well worth reading for statements such as this.
"...at its best, geography is one of the most radical, essential and interdisciplinary ways of understanding our world.It explores how systems of power, trade and technology shape our lives, who controls space and who is excluded, and how histories of colonialism still govern the streets we walk and determine the quality of the air we breathe.
Geography teaches us not just where things are, but why they are there — and what could be otherwise.
It’s the lens that reveals how a wildfire in Oregon, a supply chain delay in Malaysia and a surveillance policy in New York are not separate stories, but interconnected expressions in a global, dynamic system.
It’s time to reclaim that power."
Demian Hommel is an associate professor of teaching in Geography and Geospatial Science at Oregon State University and a faculty fellow with OSU’s Center for Teaching and Learning.
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