Teaching the history of geography: Current challenges and future directions. (April 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Keighren, Innes M.; Crampton, Jeremy W.; Ginn, Franklin; Kirsch, Scott; Kobayashi, Audrey; Naylor, Simon N; Seemann, Jörn
• Is Part Of: Progress in human geography. Volume 41:Number 2(2017)
• Page Start: 245
• Page End: 262
• Publication Date: 2017-04
• Subjects: curriculum design -- disciplinarity -- history of geography -- pedagogy -- teaching; Human geography -- Periodicals; 304.2
• DOI: 10.1177/0309132515575940
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0309-1325

Abstract

Drawing upon the personal reflections of geographical educators in Brazil, Canada, the UK, and the US, this Forum provides a state-of-the-discipline review of teaching in the history of geography; identifies the practical and pedagogical challenges associated with that teaching; and offers suggestions and provocations as to future innovation. The Forum shows how teaching in the history of geography is valued – as a tool of identity making, as a device for cohort building and professionalization, and as a means of interrogating the disciplinary present – but also how it is challenged by neoliberal educational policies, competing priorities in curriculum design, and sub-disciplinary divisions.