Powerful Primary Geography

Name: Powerful Primary Geography
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138226517
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A Toolkit for 21st-Century Learning

By Anne M. Dolan

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Powerful Primary Geography: A Toolkit for 21st-Century Learning by Anne M. Dolan equips teachers to inspire children's love for place, nature, and geographical understanding. It offers playful, meaningful approaches to help pupils think geographically, engage with real-world problems, and explore contemporary issues such as climate change, sustainability, and community involvement. The book includes case studies from Irish primary schools and emphasises developing children's agency as local and global citizens through artistic and thoughtful geography education.
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This book is ideal for primary school teachers, student teachers, and education enthusiasts seeking to deepen their approach to geography teaching, particularly those interested in climate change, sustainability, and fostering children's civic engagement.

This text explores the need for children to understand the modern world and their place in it and the ways playful opportunities can be created for children to learn how to think geographically, to solve real-life problems and to apply their learning in playful and meaningful ways to the world around them.

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Powerful Primary Geography: A Toolkit for 21st-Century Learning explores the need for children to understand the modern world and their place in it. Dedicated to helping teachers inspire children’s love of place, nature, and geographical adventures through facilitating children’s voice and developing their agency, this book explores the way playful opportunities can be created for children to learn how to think geographically, solve real-life problems, and apply their learning in meaningful ways to the world around them.

Based on the very latest research, Powerful Primary Geography helps children understand change, conflict, and contemporary issues influencing their current and future lives. It covers topics such as:

Weather and climate change
Sustainability
Engaging in their local and global community
Graphicacy, map work, and visual literacy
Understanding geography through the arts

Including several case studies from primary schools in Ireland, this book aids teachers, student teachers, and education enthusiasts in preparing children for dealing with the complex nature of our contemporary world through artistic and thoughtful geography. Facilitating children’s engagement as local, national, and global citizens ensures geography can be taught in a powerful and meaningful manner.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

"This is a book which is excellent on many different levels... well structured and underpinned by a clear sense of values and purpose." - Dr Stephen Scoffham, Teaching Geography

"A wonderful book with vision, commitment and hope to make teaching geography personal, political, and powerful." - Paula Galvin, INTOUCH

"A ground-breaking contribution to geography education that encourages critical reflection on practice and global issues."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138226517

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 May 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 44 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 91 Halftones, black and white; 96 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 540g

Pages: 276

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Anne M. Dolan Children’s, Teenage and Educational Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

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.

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