Geographical Association Annual Conference 2013

Theme:  Looking to the future

When:   Thursday, 4 April to Saturday 6 April 2013

Where:   University of Deby, Kedleston Road, Derby DE22 1GB            www.derby.ac.uk

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Geography teachers face challenging futures. Most teachers are secure about the part that geography can play in learning about the world, but what kind of world will our students live in? We make educated guesses about climate change and the world that our students could inhabit, but what about the kinds of work that they will do, or the environments in which that work will take place?

• By 2014, it is likely that every child will study geography to age 16. How shall we excite students and give them a framework for looking at the world, in ways that will offer a legacy beyond their years at school?
• Most of today’s students are very skilled in handling 24-hour media and news, access to the internet and social networking sites. How should our work in the classroom respond to the challenges of fast-moving technologies?
• Curriculum reviews by central government will result in changes to what is taught to children in schools. How should teachers respond to such changes?

The 2013 Annual Conference will help us look to the future in three key ways:

• By providing a range of examples about ways in which geographers see the future using different perspectives drawn from the natural and human world.
• By exploring ways in which classrooms of the future might approach ways of learning, whatever the content of the curriculum, and provide some concrete, positive and inspiring ideas that can be put into practice back in our places of work.
• By evaluating ideas about how to exploit some of the new technologies for learning, for both teachers and students.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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