Geography Books

New and Published Books

1. Active Learning and Student Engagement

   International Perspectives and Practices in Geography in Higher Education

   Edited by Mick Healey, Eric Pawson, Michael Solem

   This book examines significant issues in geography teaching and learning from the perspectives of an international network of academic geographers and postgraduate students. Drawing on classroom experiences and research in a wide variety of educational settings, the authors describe conceptually...

   Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge
2. Setting Performance Standards

   Foundations, Methods, and Innovations, 2nd Edition

   Edited by Gregory J. Cizek

   Setting standards of performance is a ubiquitous task in education licensure, certification, and credentialling. It is found in elementary schooling, the professions, commercial applications, and governmental and private organizations. It is one of the most complex, controversial, and vexing issues...

   Published December 18th 2011 by Routledge
3. Tackling Controversial Issues in the Primary School

   Facing Life's Challenges with Your Learners

   By Richard Woolley

   How do you broach family values with seven year olds? Can you help young children understand racism? Can you avoid bringing your own prejudices into the classroom? Talking effectively about controversial issues with young children is a challenge facing every primary school teacher. Tackling...

   Published June 23rd 2010 by Routledge
4. Social Studies and Diversity Education

   What We Do and Why We Do It

   Edited by Elizabeth E. Heilman, Ramona Fruja, Matthew Missias

   The preparation of social studies teachers is crucial not only to the project of good education, but, even more broadly, to the cultivation of a healthy democracy and the growth of a nation’s citizens. This one-of-a-kind resource features ideas from over 100 of the field's most thoughtful teacher...

   Published October 26th 2009 by Routledge
5. Learning to Teach Geography in the Secondary School

   A Companion to School Experience, 2nd Edition

   By David Lambert, David Balderstone

   Series: Learning to Teach Subjects in the Secondary School Series

   Learning to Teach Geography in the Secondary School has become the widely recommended textbook for student and new teachers of geography. It helps them acquire a deeper understanding of the role, purpose and potential of geography within the secondary curriculum, and provides the practical skills...

   Published August 18th 2009 by Routledge
6. Global Perspectives in the Geography Curriculum

   Reviewing the Moral Case for Geography

   By Alex Standish

   ‘For geographers across the globe this book provides the arguments for a return to the teaching of geography and why they should reject the politicisation of the subject by education policy makers and politicians. Standish’s careful critique shows the necessity of a depoliticised geography...

   Published October 6th 2008 by Routledge
7. Social Studies for the Twenty-First Century

   Methods and Materials for Teaching in Middle and Secondary Schools, 3rd Edition

   By Jack Zevin, Jack Zevin

   Social Studies for the Twenty-First Century, Third Edition weaves theory, curriculum, methods, and assessment into a comprehensive model to guide middle and secondary teachers in setting objectives; planning lessons, units, and courses; choosing classroom strategies; and constructing tests&...

   Published March 6th 2007 by Routledge
8. Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society

   Implications of the Work of Jack Goody

   Edited by David R. Olson, Michael Cole

   Inspired by the seminal work of Jack Goody, a historical anthropologist specializing in the study of social structure and change, Technology, Literacy, and the Evolution of Society gathers diverse perspectives of 20 distinguished historians, anthropologists, psychologists, and educators to address...

   Published June 22nd 2006 by Psychology Press
9. Learning and Teaching with Maps

   By Patrick Wiegand

   A comprehensive and authoritative account of how primary school children and teachers can use maps to enhance learning and deepen understanding of this essential skill. It includes all aspects of map use, such as reading and interpreting maps and using maps to find the way, covering...

   Published January 25th 2006 by Routledge
10. Children's Thinking About Cultural Universals

    By Jere Brophy, Janet Alleman

    Drawing on interview data, the authors describe K-3 students' knowledge and thinking about basic aspects of the social world that are addressed in the elementary social studies curriculum. The interviews focused on human activities relating to nine cultural universals that are commonly addressed in...

    Published September 6th 2005 by Routledge