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Understanding and teaching primary geography [[electronic resource] /] / Simon Catling, Tessa Willy



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Autore: Catling Simon Visualizza persona
Titolo: Understanding and teaching primary geography [[electronic resource] /] / Simon Catling, Tessa Willy Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London, England : , : SAGE Publications Ltd., , [2018]
© 2018
Edizione: 2nd edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 581 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 372.891049
Soggetto topico: Elementary school teaching - Great Britain
Elementary school teachers - Training of - Great Britain
Geography - Study and teaching (Elementary) - Great Britain
Persona (resp. second.): WillyTessa
Note generali: Previous edition published as : Teaching primary geography. Exeter : Learning Matters, 2009.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction --
PART 1: UNDERSTANDING PRIMARY GEOGRAPHY --
1. Geography in primary schools --
2. Valuing geography: the importance and nature of geography --
3. Children's geographies: experience, awareness and understanding --
4. Understanding geographical enquiry --
5. Exploring places: key ideas in understanding places --
6. Understanding the environment: aspects of physical, human and environmental geography --
7. Exploring sustainability: environmental impact, sustainability and sustainable schools --
8. Geography and social justice: citizenship, equity and controversial issues --
9. Experiencing and visualising geography: fieldwork, photographs, artefacts and maps --
PART 2: EXPLORING GEOGRAPHY TEACHING AND CURRICULUM --
10. In the beginning: geographical learning in the early years --
11. Investigating the school and its grounds --
12. Exploring locally, regionally and nationally --
13. Exploring global dimensions and places elsewhere in the world --
14. Planning primary geography teaching --
15. Assessing geographical learning --
16. Developing learning in primary geography education --
APPENDIX 1: Examples of primary geography curriculum requirements and guidance internationally --
APPENDIX 2: Examples of geographically-informed children's picture story books.
Sommario/riassunto: This book outlines how good teaching of primary geography can extend children's world awareness and help them make connections between their environmental and geographical experiences. Chapters offer guidance on important learning and teaching issues as well as the use and creation of resources from the school environment to the global context. It covers all the key topics in primary geography including: understanding places physical and human geography environmental sustainability learning outside the classroom global issues citizenship and social justice. Summaries, classroom examples and practical and reflective tasks are included throughout to foster understanding and support the effective teaching of primary geography --
Titolo autorizzato: Understanding and teaching primary geography  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9781526451019
9781526408396
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910823163703321
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