today i bring you a two-part audio recording of the discussion which arose amongst the teachers who are taking a Masters-in-Education module offered by my colleague and I. this discussion centred around the nature of what it means to think geographically.
the forty-seventh episode of ventriloquy is 97 minutes long and is split into two parts.
the first part is 40.7 MB in size, and captures a presentation and ensuing discussion around the following topic:
"geography is the study of the world and all that is in it: its peoples, its land, air, and water, its plants and animals, and all the connections among its various parts. When you are investigating the world and its events you are dealing with geography.” (ESRI Schools and Libraries Program, 2003). What exactly constitutes geographical thinking? To what extent does the preceding quotation provide a comprehensive definition of what it means to think geographically?
Show notes:
Section A: the presentation
- Outline of presentation
- Introductory ideas
- What is geography?
- Geography and philosophy
- Geographical thinking
- Space
- Place
- Scale
- Connectedness
- Interdependence
- Framing dimensions
- Geographic inquiry
- Thinking geographically
- Geographic questions and resources
- Repurposing, analysing, synthesising
- Geography-specific skills
- Concluding the presentation
Section B: the discussion
- Planning the presentation
- Geographies
- Problems encountered
- Space and place
- Thinking geographically in the classroom
- Thinking critically in the classroom
