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Geography Education's Potential and the Capability Approach: GeoCapabilities and Schools - Couverture souple

Bustin, Richard

 
9783030256449: Geography Education's Potential and the Capability Approach: GeoCapabilities and Schools
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3030256448 ISBN 13 : 9783030256449
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

This book explores the pivotal role that geography as a school subject plays in helping every young person achieve their educational potential. Expressed as 'GeoCapabilities', this concept draws on the the capabilities approach developed by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum applied to curriculum thinking in schools. While traditional subjects have often been deemed irrelevant and outdated in an overcrowded secondary school curriculum, subjects like geography have often been lost or combined with others to fulfil a broad skills agenda. More recent talk of a 'knowledge led' curriculum can often lead to the recitation of facts at the expense of developing deeper understanding. This book argues the concept of powerful geographical knowledge, based on the work of Michael Young and David Lambert, invests the subject of geography with its educational potential: this forms the basis of GeoCapabilities. GeoCapabilities focuses on both what is being taught and why, and as such provides a framework of curriculum thinking which will be of interest and value to geography teachers, school leaders with curriculum development responsibilities and all those interested in the capability approach and the moral imperative of education.

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À propos de l'auteur

Richard Bustin is Head of Geography at Lancing College, UK. He is also on the editorial board of the journal Teaching Geography and works with trainee geography teachers across the UK.

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Éditeur
Palgrave Macmillan
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3030256448
ISBN 13 
9783030256449
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
228
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