Geography Teacher Educators' Conference
The Geography Teacher Educators' (GTE) Conference is an annual event where geography tutors from ITE courses all over the UK gather to exchange ideas, discuss each other's research and debate current issues within geography education. Materials from the 2010 event are available to download below.
GTE Conference 2011 will take place in Nottingham, dates tbc
Materials from previous conferences are available here:
2010 Conference
GTE Conference 2010 took place at Madingley Hall, Cambridge from 29-31 January. PowerPoint Presentations from the event can be accessed below.
Please note: some presentations may have been adapted due to copyright restrictions
Clare Brooks - The Role of Practitioner Research in Geography Teacher Education
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Simon Catling - The Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum Final Report
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Simon Catling - The Young Geographer's Project 2008: Curriculum making with primary teachers
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David Lambert - Geography in Schools: what are we fighting for?
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David Mitchell - The Futures Dimension in Education
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Debbie Moss - A Different View: a manifesto by the GA. A powerful tool for reaffirming geography’s potential in the curriculum or another sexy gimmick by the GA?
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Alan Parkinson - NQT 2.0: Online support networks for new geography teachers
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Charles Rawding - Reconstructing the Rural: contemporary approaches to the British Countryside
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Robert Rosenthal - The Impact of Experiential Fieldwork on Learning
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Takashi Shimura - High School Geography in the 2009 Japanese National Curriculum: reflections on Japanese social studies education history
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Nicola Walshe - Using Dialogic Diaries to Explore and Develop Student Understanding
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Paul Weeden and Graham Butt - Residential Fieldwork: Mutual Benefits within an ITT Partnership
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Luc Zwartjes - iGuess: Integrating GIS use in education in several subjects
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