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Valuing Places - The People
A range of people are involved in the Valuing Places at a variety of levels including: a GA Co-ordinating Group, Regional Co-ordinators and Geography Teachers at key stages 2 and 3.
There is a very strong professional development emphasis for everyone involved. The creative involvement of teachers in developing appropriate curriculum materials will be as important as the materials themselves.
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Nick Middleton - Valuing Places Patron
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Nick Middleton (Travel Writer, Channel 4 series 'Surviving Extremes' and Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford) is the patron of Valuing Places. Nick says 'Like all good ideas, Valuing Places is simple. All places are unique, and learning about other parts of the world helps us to understand them, to see similarities and differences. I am honoured to be part of this project and urge everyone else to get involved.'
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Diane Swift - Project Manager & Steering Group Member
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Diane Swift has been involved with Development Education since the 1980s. She was involved in the Trocaire/DEC (Birmingham) study visit to Brazil which resulted in the publications Where to Draw the Line and Fala Favela. She was one of the authors of Global Geography and is currently Chair of the GeoVisions Group. The latter was originally a DEC project, and is now a national project supported by the GA exploring the future and the value of an effective geographical education.
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Margaret Mackintosh
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Margaret Mackintosh was a primary teacher in Humberside but now lives in Devon where she is a semi-retired ITT (Primary Geography) tutor. An Afro-phile, since 1993 she has led many experiential fieldwork visits to The Gambia for students and teachers. She was Honorary Editor of Primary Geographer from 1995 to 2005.
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Christopher Spencer
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Christopher Spencer is Professor of Environmental Psychology at the University of Sheffield. He has a particular interest in children's environmental cognitions and their use of local environments.
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Alun Morgan
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Alun Morgan taught Secondary Geography for 10 years before working as Director of Education at the Cardiff Environment Centre and then Education for Sustainable Development Officer for Worcestershire County Council. He is currently working as Lecturer in Geographical Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. His main interests include Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship.
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Clare Brooks
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Clare Brooks is a Lecturer of Geography Education where she teaches on the Geography PGCE course, various inset courses and is a tutor on the Geography Masters in Education courses (both Campus based and Distance Learning). She was the Research Officer for the YoungNet Project and is now currently Research Officer for the Enews Project. Her research interests include how e-Learning can improve geographical understanding, and how expert geography teachers use their subject knowledge.
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Peter Jackson
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Peter Jackson is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sheffield working mainly in the area of social and cultural geography. He sees the Valuing Places project as an opportunity to 'make connections' between schools and universities, across a range of geographical scales, and among different parts of the discipline.
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Sue Lomas
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Sue Lomas is Key Stage 3 Strategy Manager and Acting School Improvement Officer for Salford LEA. She is also Senior Vice President of the Geographical Association. Sue taught geography in Cheshire for 20 years and was part of the team delivering INSET to geography teachers across the county. She has a firm belief that children’s own experiences of place and space bring unique opportunities to the teaching of geography and is particularly committed to increasing the proportion of girls that study the subject.
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Doreen Massey
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I have long-term interests in various aspects of the theorization of 'space' and 'place'. These interests range through globalization (critique of), regional uneven development, the reconceptualization of place … and from the philosophical and largely conceptual through to the directly political. I co-founded and now co-edit Soundings: a journal of politics and culture.
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David Owen
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David Owen is Primary Programme Leader in the Division of Education and Humanities at Sheffield Hallam University. He teaches geography on the BA and PGCE primary education courses and is committed to geographical learning which builds on children’s own experiences and values. His research investigates the role of collaborative talk in primary children’s computer based mapping.
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Margaret Roberts
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Margaret Roberts is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Sheffield and a member of the GTIP Steering Group.
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Jeff Serf
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Jeff Serf is Principal Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Wolverhampton. He taught geography in a number of secondary comprehensive schools in the West Midlands and is particularly interested in development education and education for democratic citizenship. He is an active member of the Birmingham Development Education Centre.
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Liz Taylor
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Liz Taylor runs the Geography PGCE course at Cambridge University. Her research interests include cultural geography, curriculum development and the use of ICT in geographical learning. She is currently exploring ideas about place and how children develop their understandings about distant places.
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Peter Bloomfield
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Peter Bloomfield is a Senior Lecturer in Education at The University of Hertfordshire. He worked for 10 years as a secondary school geography teacher and has spent substantial time working in primary school classrooms during his time at the University. Peter is currently researching the teaching of geography along with environmental education for sustainability at Key Stages 1 and 2.
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Pat Wilson - Project Evaluator
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Pat is a geography graduate with an MA in Assessment. She taught for twenty years in secondary and HE before becoming the first national Officer responsible for 5-19 geography assessment, retiring in 1993. Since then she has worked for QCA, Ofsted and OCR and has produced many curriculum materials. She has served on the executive of the GA and FSC and is currently on the RGS-IBG Education Committee.
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Pat Frean
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South-West
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I am a Plymouth Geography AST, based at Plymouth High School for Girls. The Valuing Places project is a unique opportunity for key stage 2 and key stage 3 teachers to work on geography in the curriculum together. We have so much to learn from each other, and the sooner we can convince managers in schools that almost the entire curriculum can be delivered through geography, the better.
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Vimi Vatish
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South-East
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I was delighted to be invited to join the Valuing Places project. While not from a geographical background, this project resonates closely with my current work at a Development Education Centre (Kent and the Wider World), reflecting similar methodologies and concerns. I hope my experience as an ESOL teacher and involvement with community arts and environmental projects will also contribute to this dynamic and exciting research.
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Angus Willson
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London
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One significant feature of Valuing Places is the opportunity for teachers involved in geographical education to engage with each other in professional consideration of their classroom activities. The sub-text could be 'valuing teachers' and an encouraging sign that collective work has genuine validity at a time when the local structures to support it have barely survived.
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Stephanie Turner
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East Anglia
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I have taught geography in secondary schools and a further education college. I was Education Officer for London Wildlife Trust (1995-98) and Education Manager for the Institute for Citizenship (1998-2000). Since then I have been a freelance writer and trainer. I am an Open University tutor for Environmental Policy and Geography PGCE.
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Jill Jackson
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Midlands
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I am delighted to have the opportunity to be involved in a national project - Valuing Places. As a Head of Geography, lead teacher in Herefordshire and Advanced Skills Teacher in Initial Teacher Training, I have worked alongside trainees and experienced teachers across the key stages and enjoyed seeing a wide range of skills, ideas and innovative teaching strategies generated in the classroom. I am in no doubt that it is important to have high quality, up-to-date resources to motivate and engage pupils in the classroom and I look forward to sharing my enthusiasm, working with teachers in the region, to support a project, which has learning in the classroom as the focal point.
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Stephen Pickering
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Midlands
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I have been Geography Co-ordinator, Head of Year and Careers Co-ordinator in a variety of middle and secondary schools. At present I am responsible for supporting teachers and schools as the Education for Sustainable Development Officer for Worcestershire, I also lecture in Primary Geography at University College Worcester and I am on the board of trustees at TIDE (Birmingham DEC). The theme of place is investigated in a number of curriculum areas in schools but these tend to focus on a specific place with only minimal reference to its place within the world. Mutual dependence and inter-connectedness are a vital area to be explored within the curriculum. This is a real opportunity for pupils to expand their horizons through and beyond their local area.
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Ruth Ward
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North-West
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I am currently Head of Geography at Helsby High School, a large mixed 11-18 comprehensive school. I have been involved in liaison with local primary schools and have set up a working group developing geographical ideas across the key stage 2-3 interface running seminars for teachers. I instituted and published my own classroom-based research on the impact of mind-friendly learning, and would like to encourage more teachers to carry out their own research. I think this is an exciting project because children need a sense of place. Building from their current knowledge they are better able to make sense of world events and have a clearer understanding of the world through connecting with real places. I believe that geography should be at the centre of the school curriculum, and a sense of place at the centre of geography.
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Liz Lewis
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North-East
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Liz Lewis is a keen GA member who regularly writes for Primary Geographer and has contributed to the Primary Handbooks and Barnaby Bear materials. Liz knows the North-East region well and is enthusiastic about its great diversity, and its interdependence, past and present, with many other parts of Europe and indeed the world. She is looking forward to working with colleagues to explore with them the educational opportunities afforded by these interconnections.
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Vicki Silver
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Out of Classroom Learning
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Since January 2005, I have been the Training & Development Officer for SureStart Cheshire. I am responsible for running a CPD programme for the staff of Nurseries, pre-schools, Out of School Clubs, and Childminders, etc. Prior to this, I ran an Environmental Education Centre. A lot of my work has been with teachers and children exploring new places and comparing them to the ones they know. To me, geography is how I think about the world and I enjoy opening other people’s minds to the similarities, differences and interconnectedness between us all. I am looking forward to working with Early Years practitioners, parents and young children to develop their sense of belonging to a place, and being connected to others.
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South West Regional Group
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Pat Frean, Regional Co-ordinator
Faye Anderson, Plympton St Maurice Primary School
Teresa Davison Torquay Grammar School for Girls
Kirsty Jeffries, Leigham Primary School
Claire Jerman, Hillside Special School
Sharon Lance, Wembury Primary School
Fiona Osmaston, Tamarside Community College
Steve Parke, Hele’s School
Jim Rogers, Ridgeway School
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South East Regional Group
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Vimmi Vatish, Regional Co-ordinator
Rachel Bowles, Co-ordinator Primary Research Register
Louise Chantler, Sandgate CP School
Dawn Jones, Brent CP School
Carolyn Parker, Merton Junior School
Robyn Persuad, Hawkinge Primary School
Laura Shawyer, Cobham Hall School for Girls
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London Group
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Angus Willson, Regional Co-ordinator
Anne Bathem, Derwent Water Primary
Janet Carlsson, Old Palace School of John Whitgift
Simon Carter, Twyford High School
Martin Crabbe, Glebe School
Jashu Devi, Belmount Middle School
Deborah Gosling, Royal London Docks School
Olivia Greenway, Rosendale Primary
Elizabeth Kalio, Durdan’s Primary School
Manjusha Malhotra, Tudor Primary School
Carrie Williams, Scotts Park Primary School
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East Anglia Regional Group
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Stephanie Turner, Regional Co-ordinator
Richard Brown, Highfield School
Rosamund Dollman, Stonehill School
Anne Foy, Knight Templar School
Chris Gough, Geography Adviser
Tony Hazzard, St Christophers School
Kate Jaworski, St Thomas Moore RC JMI School
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Midlands (Hereford) Regional Group
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Jill Jackson, Regional Co-ordinator
Martin Booy, Kingstone High School
Joy Carroll, Hampton Dene Primary
Lynda Kendall, Lord Scudamore Primary
Fran Morgan, Aylestone School
Jennifer Pinder, Crickhowell High School
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Midlands Regional Group
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Stephen Pickering, Regional Co-ordinator
Ruth Barton, Vale of Evesham
Sally Baskerville, University College, Worcester
Neil Hornby, Chase Technology College, Malvern
Chris Nelson, Blackminster Middle School
Matt Wickham, Blessed Edward Oldcorne
Julie Williams, Whitwick St John the Baptist School
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North West Regional Group
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Ruth Ward, Regional Co-ordinator
Val Cotterill, Fordsham Manor House Primary School
Julie Crossley, Whitby High School
Gail Fullbrook, Fordsham Cont. Primary School
Mrs. M. Williams, St Lukes Catholic Primary School
Fiona Wilson, Our Lady Catholic High School, Liverpool
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North East Regional Group
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Liz Lewis, Regional Co-ordinator
Liz Cauldwell, Cockton Hill Junior School
Joanne Coulson, South Hylton Primary School
Claire Leitch, Burnopfield Primary School
Ingrid McEnaney, Lingey House School
Mike Sharland, Fosterley Primary School
Linda Underwood, Princess Primary School
Christine Wake, Fatfield Primary School
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Out of Classroom Learning
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Vicki Silver, Regional Co-ordinator
Geoff Cooper, Low Bank Ground Outdoor Education Centre
Martin Crabbe, Glebe School
Jon Gittins, Cheshire Landscape Trust
Bill Hanley, St Michael’s Environmental Education Centre
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Valuing Gifted and Talented in Geography
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Jane Ferretti, Group Co-ordinator
Rob Lodge, Norfolk
Jeremy Reynolds, Hertfordshire
Chris Stevens, Nottingham
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Valuing Special Educational Needs in Geography
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Diane Swift, Group Co-ordinator
Jan Bird, Moorside High School, Staffordshire
Irene Corden, Springfield Special School, Staffordshire
Julie Dale, St John Fisher Catholic High School, Staffordshire
Jan Field, Moorside High School, Staffordshire
Beverley Rowley, Stretton Brook School, Staffordshire
Jackie Wadlow, Alderwood Living and Learning with Autism Limited
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