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GeoVisions is a dialog for the future of geographical education. You are all welcome to join in to articulate your views about geographical education, now and in the future. Put your views in our forum.

This is about creativity and the curriculum, because we need geography to develop for a changing world

GeoVisions development

You will find the work of the GeoVisions at

Phase 1 - The Tide~ phase when Birmingham DEC and Roger Carter and Roger Robinson co-ordinated the project.

http://www.tidec.org/geovisions/Geovisionsmain.html

Phase 2 - The GA phase when Diane Swift coordinated the project and the GA had consultative groups about the future of geographical education and in parallel moved to secure best practice research scholarships to develop classroom practice.

http://www.geography.org.uk/project/geovisions/index.html

Teachers involved from Staffordshire were:

Jan Lewis, Lynda Hack, Dennis Vickers, Gary Dawson, Gill Brown, Janet Rundle

Summaries of their work are to be found on the DFES site:

http://www.dfee.gov.uk/bprs/

Investigating young people's attitude to geography

The full article is published in TEACHING GEOGRAPHY soon.

The GeoVisions group is seeking the involvement of a wider group of geography teachers in this debate. As part of the project, Linda Thompson [and John Morris] investigated pupils attitudes to geography across some schools in Cheshire.

The GeoVisions group led by Diane Swift are interested in any body who wishes to use this questionnaire and spreadsheet with their own pupils or across a group of schools. This completed spreadsheet can be used to compare your own results.

Any comments, please send an email to:
diane_swift@yahoo.co.uk
l.thompson@which.net

This page last updated 06 April 2006