Review your scheme of work with the purpose of illustrating the concept of risk within geographical contexts that demonstrate a progression of understanding.
Building Sustainable Communities - Online CPD Unit
Activity 8: Safety and risk in our daily lives
Some possible ideas:
- Journey to school
- Road layouts (eg roundabouts compared with junctions, or methods of traffic calming)
- Safer places - design of parks and other open spaces
Inspired by the quotes from Landry and the ABD, how might we expect to develop learners' skills in handling multiple perspectives on geographical issues?
How might they recognise the need for consensual dialogue to achieve workable solutions?
The ABD site has a page of links to local issues from around the country. Some of the local pages have links to external sites and blogs so the usual net-caution is necessary. For this learning activity, instead of transferring from the generalised opposing views to specific local contexts, you might prefer to change the issue from motoring, to say, housing. The learners could then model the strong expression of differing points of view.
There is an important opportunity here to make connections with core and associated occupations where resolving conflicting views are a regular, if not permanent, requirement. With a broad knowledge and understanding of the tensions within communities, and the synthesising skills that can bring solutions to them, is where geographical learning makes a lifetime investment.
In the workplace much of this activity is verbal not written. Margaret Roberts (2003) concludes a chapter with 'enquiry work in which the main activities are speaking and listening, such as simulated public meeting, role-plays and press conferences, are extremely motivating to students and enhance understanding.'
You might like to re-visit 'Skills in action' and make some cross-references to your scheme of work.
How does this activity have potential for connections with the eight components of sustainable communities (Egan wheel), the self-evaluation framework and sustainable schools 's3 tool' looked at earlier?
Now do Activity 9 >>>
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