1. Introduction: Thinking about primary geography Simon Catling
2. Enquiring into primary teachers’ geographical knowledge Simon Catling and Emma Morley
3. English primary trainee teachers’ perceptions of geography Emma Morley
4. Contesting powerful knowledge: the primary geography curriculum as an articulation between academic and children’s (ethno-) geographies Simon Catling and Fran Martin
5. Ethnogeography: towards liberatory geography education Fran Martin
6. More than just core knowledge? A framework for effective and high-quality primary geography Paula Owens
7. Geography and creativity: developing joyful and imaginative learners Stephen Scoffham
8. Subject-based and cross-curricular approaches within the revised primary curriculum in Northern Ireland: teachers’ concerns and preferred approaches Richard Greenwood
9. Teachers’ perspectives on curriculum making in Primary Geography in England Simon Catling
10. Children researching their urban environment: developing a methodology Elisabeth Barratt Hacking and Robert Barratt
11. My Place: Exploring children’s place-related identities through reading and writing Emma Charlton, Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, Pam Pointon, Maria Nikolajeva, Erin Spring, Liz Taylor and Dominic Wyse
12. Same old story: the problem of object-based thinking as a basis for teaching distant places Fran Martin
13. ‘They are like us’ – teaching about Europe through the eyes of children Daniela Schmeinck
14. Giving younger children voice in primary geography: empowering pedagogy – a personal perspective Simon Catling
Biography
Simon Catling taught in London primary schools before moving to Oxford Brookes University in the 1980s, serving as Dean and Assistant Dean in the 1990s and 2000s. He is a Past-President of the Geographical Association, author of Mapstart and Teaching Primary Geography (with Tessa Willy).
“[Research and Debate in Primary Geography] is both encouraging and challenging to enthusiastic teachers in training, new teachers, experienced team leaders and all involved in any ways with curriculum development. The research covered in the book is so extensive that it also provides many valuable insights for teachers of secondary geography as well as the primary teachers, which is its main focus. … The book would clearly be a valuable resource to both students and lecturers in education faculties, but it would be stimulating for all teachers of geography, whatever age levels they teach and whatever experience they have had.” --John Butler OAM, Geographical Education
