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Geography Teacher Educators' Conference 2005

Papers and notes from sessions

Download notes and presentations from the 2005 event below - be aware that the notes are in their original format ... warts and all!

In a presentation entitled 'Developing cultural geography: the use of music and film by PGCE students' Charles Rawding (Edge Hill University College) provides a list of songs and films that PGCE students have recommended as useful in teaching about cultural geography.

Patrick Wiegand's Notes from a presentation on 'Approaches to GIS' Patrick Wiegand (University of Leeds) cover Earthquakes and Get Going with GIS.

For their Workshop on 'The Challenge of the Global Dimension' Arthur Kelly and Penny Sweasey (Manchester Metropolitan University) have provided Notes on a practical activity.

Peter Jackson's (University of Sheffield) presentation on 'Thinking Geographically' can be downloaded here.

David Lambert's presentation on 'The Educational Potential of Geography' can be downloaded here.

Download Rachel Lofthouse's six concepts on 'What make's geographer's tick' (which resulted from a discussion at the conference) here.

Download David Mitchell's Powerpoint presentation on 'Waves, coasts and rivers...indoors' here.

Conference feedback

Download Pat Huxley's (PGCE tutor at the University of Nottingham) feedback on her experience of the GTE conference in Sheffield in January 2005.

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