Geography Books

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   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...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-55018-5 | Paperback (Routledge)

2. 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...

   January 2010 | 978-0-415-56492-2 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   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...

   October 2009 | 978-0-415-99672-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Learning to Teach Geography in the Secondary School: A Companion to School Experience, 2nd Edition

   By David Lambert, David Balderstone

   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...

   August 2009 | 978-0-415-43786-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2008 | 978-0-415-47549-5 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Social Studies for the Twenty-First Century: Methods and Materials for Teaching in Middle and Secondary Schools, 3rd Edition, 3rd Edition

   By 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&...

   2007 | 978-0-8058-5558-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2006 | 978-0-8058-5402-2 | Hardback (Psychology Press)
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   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...

   2006 | 978-0-415-31210-3 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   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...

   2005 | 978-0-8058-4894-6 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Meeting SEN in the Curriculum: Geography

    By Diane Swift

    This book includes: an overview of SEN legislation and national initatives guidance on departmental policy advice on how to create an inclusive learning environment in the geography classroom and on field studies case study material good practice taken form the "Value Places" project....

    2005 | 978-1-84312-162-6 | Paperback (David Fulton Publishers)