1st Edition
Powerful Primary Geography A Toolkit for 21st-Century Learning
Introduction
- Powerful primary geography: Setting the scene
- Powerful geographical thinking: Initiating investigations and enquiry-based learning
- Teaching powerful geography through place
- Playful approaches to powerful geography: Games, artefacts and fun
- Teaching geography powerfully through topics: Weather and climate change
- Teaching powerful geography through graphicacy, map work and visual literacy
- Teaching powerful geography through the arts
- Powerful geography: Teaching citizenship, global learning and the Sustainable Development Goals
Appendix 1: Card-sorting activity for teaching about volcanoes
Appendix 2: Weather glossary
Index
Biography
Anne M. Dolan is a lecturer in primary geography with the Department of Learning, Society and Religious Education in Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland. Anne is passionate about primary geography and she is keen to share this passion with her students and primary teachers. She is particularly interested in creative approaches to geography, interdisciplinary collaboration and the use of the arts in geographical explorations. As a researcher, Anne focuses on outdoor learning, geoliteracy, children’s concepts of place and creative approaches to geography.
"This is a book which is excellent on many different levels. It sets out a broad vision of geography as a learning journey which will take today’s pupils to the final decades of the present century. The text is well structured and underpinned by a clear sense of values and purpose." - Dr Stephen Scoffham, Teaching Geography
"I look forward immensely to using this book. Anne Dolan and all the schools ho contributed to this wonderful book are to be commended for their vision, commitment and hope to make teaching geography personal, political, and powerful." - Paula Galvin, INTOUCH
"This book stands as a ground-breaking contribution to the teaching, learning and researching of primary geography education. It aids educators to reflect critically on their own practices, current global and local issues, and how these can be addressed meaningfully in their future educational practices. It should make for essential reading for all interested in geography education, climate change education, sustainability education and in education which positions children’s agency and action to the forefront more broadly." - Joe Usher, Irish Educational Studies
