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Why teach the Global Dimension?

Geography plays a part in promoting development education in schools, but thinking about the global dimension implies a step change from stereotypical 'development indicators' and 'case studies'. A global approach presents teachers and students with a range of challenges and opportunities.

Using a global dimension geography teachers can:

  • participate in curriculum renewal, finding new ways to teach current issues such as poverty reduction, food security, population movement, sustainable development
  • create lessons that connect to students' lives and imaginations
  • provide renewed focus for the study of the home locality as a dynamic global 'meeting point'
  • reinvigorate the basic concepts of place and scale as powerful tools to analyse uniqueness of outcome with universality of human and physical processes.

For students, geography lessons:

  • become a powerful way of addressing issues
  • help them develop a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of their locality
  • help them deconstruct everyday events in order to build their understanding of multiple perspectives
  • provide a sense of empowerment
  • provide opportunities for pupils to envision possible, probable and alternative futures in relation to sustainable development
  • encourage debate and develop communication skills
  • help them understand that human rights (and responsibilities) are universal

For the DEA, DCSF and GA these approaches are inextricably linked - read statements from each of these organisations here. See also the GA's manifesto for school geography, A Different View, for further information.

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This issue focuses on global learning at primary level and includes articles on school partnerships, food and farming and South Africa 2010. It also features the second part of the Forest Schools Diary.

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The Spring issue of Teaching Geography has a new look and a new format. Focusing on 'enquiry', it is full of teaching ideas and resources, which show how an enquiry approach can be used to engage and motivate students.

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Geography

The Spring 2010 issue, edited by Eleanor Rawling, looks at the geographies of organised crime, the geographies of the creative industries, 'joined-up geography' and more.

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