A Principal's Reflections

MAY 24, 2020

Social media has completely disrupted that and, in the process, removed barriers such as time, geography, and money. The image below illustrates another secret that I have to come clean about, but one that also represents the ultimate power of connected learning. All of us are limited to the people we surround ourselves with in life.

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Living Geography

MARCH 25, 2025

Alistair Hamill is the latest guest on Kit Marie Rackley's 'Coffee and Geography' podcast. Some links to things mentioned in the chat: Climate Ambassadors ( [link] ) Alistair's CoffeeGeogPod episode which includes discussion on the importance of Northern Ireland's Shared Education ( / coffee-geography-s02e11-alistair-hamill-no. )

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Living Geography

MAY 11, 2025

A couple of examples of Geography being represented at the Venice Biennale. Geography and geology lie at the heart of the British Pavilion's theme. Kathryn Yusoff is Professor of Inhuman Geography at Queen Mary University of London. The first came from the RGS social media feed.

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Living Geography

MAY 30, 2025

It looks at the ethics of AI use in geography. The original project was my final (hopefully for now) ERASMUS+ project and was funded through a Jean Monnet action. The new module was funded by the Civics Innovation Fund. I worked on the section on the curriculum in particular.

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Living Geography

APRIL 11, 2025

Geography is the worlds discipline. As part of a series of pieces in the TES on different subjects, Mark Enser was asked to consider the challenges and opportunities for the subject. The study of it should help students to understand how the world works and to use this knowledge to make decisions about the future.

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Two legends of international geography teaching, resource creation and training in the same virtual space: Richard Allaway and Matt Podbury have teamed up to offer some special support for teachers in international schools / teaching international qualifications. A new venture, and one I can certainly get behind.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 25, 2025

Green jobs are an area that both the GA and RGS are interested in supporting and feel that those who study geography are perfectly positioned to move into such jobs with the focus of many geography 'A' level specifications and undergraduate courses being linked to sustainability issues and an increasing need to tackle climate change.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 27, 2025

A Quest for Our Earliest Stories Myths and legends have always been windows into the human psyche, revealing our fears, dreams, and attempts to understand the world. Yet, could these stories also encode the history of humanity’s migrations and interactions?

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Living Geography

JANUARY 29, 2025

The theme for this issue, edited by Ben Ballin , is the Geography of Togetherness. I am very pleased to have an article in this issue on this theme. Thanks to Ben for asking me to contribute some time ago. Subscribers can now download the digital issue and print copies will be arriving shortly.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Time for Geography had worked with Rhian and Rayburn to produce some new resources telling this compelling story, and they are now starting to be available. She had just published her work on the legacy of the eruptions on Heimaey. An eruption on the island in 1973 led to the evacuation of its population. Many of them moved to Grindavik.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Physical copies of the GA's journals arrived this week - not 'Geography' yet. If you are a subscriber to Primary Geography you will have been able to read my article on inclusion / exclusion in rural / urban spaces. Check it out and download it if you are a subscriber.

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Living Geography

MARCH 21, 2025

It's the 4th edition of a textbook for the newly updated iGCSE Geography specification. Along with this student book - the 4th edition, written for the new Cambridge iGCSE Geography specification, there is also a Teacher's Guide , which contains lesson plans and extra resources, plus answers for all the questions in the book.

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Geogramblings

MAY 20, 2025

In our latest Espresso & Geography #CoffeeGeogPod podcast short, I was joined by the ever-thoughtful Dave Wynn climate advocate, stereo-photographer, harpist, and someone who always brings clarity and compassion to complex issues. From this point forward, were living in ecological debt. Lets not just mark Overshoot Day.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Hillman says that he began looking at geography out of frustration with an emphasis during the Obama administration on providing consumer information about higher education as a solution to college access.

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Living Geography

JUNE 8, 2025

Happy 150th birthday to the Romanian Geography Society. In 1845, the society for geography and related sciences in Darmstadt. The website gives information about the founding of the Society in 1875. Following the official linking to the royal family at an opening congress, Mr. Vice-President A.A. In 1845, the Imperial Society in St.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Answer the questions to find out what sort of a geography teacher you are. I'd gone home by then, but looking at the presentation slides and the project website it's easy to work out what the project is about. It was presented by Petr Knecht and Michaela Spurn. Here are the types of teacher they have identified.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

This is now available. An annual treat for as long as I can remember. Always a fixture of my final week before the Christmas break. Helen Young has provided your final lesson of term for you with a 12 question quiz. I use this with all my groups in the final lesson and it always goes down well.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 28, 2025

Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa By Jack Paine , Emory University ; Xiaoyan Qiu , Washington University in St. American Political Science Review The post Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa appeared first on.

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Living Geography

MAY 3, 2025

Fiona Sheriff was on a bit of a roll through 2024 and this has continued into 2025. She received awards from the Geographical Association and the Royal Geographical Society. She has also been involved in a number of events as well as continuing her important work with the UK Polar Network.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

GA press release says: Despite growing diversity of the geography GCSE cohort, at A level and at university geography is one of the least diverse of all subjects. The subject, and its institutions, are not serving all geography teachers nor all young people who could benefit from studying geography. Change is needed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2025

The theory is that the more familiar students are with science, history, geography and even art, the easier it will be for students to grasp new ideas when reading. Many educators are embracing this theory, and knowledge building lessons have been spreading rapidly across the country, from Baltimore to Mississippi to Colorado.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 8, 2025

These movements have blurred the relationship between genetics and geography, making it difficult to reconstruct the origins of its inhabitants. “There’s been so much movement in Wallacea in the past couple of thousand years that it obscures the relationship between geography and genetics,” Tobler added.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia History, AP Human Geography, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, and AP U.S. I imagine the airport staff know him well by now. I wanted to hear about Dalton’s classroom experience first. He taught U.S. history, Oklahoma History, U.S./Virginia

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Living Geography

JANUARY 10, 2025

My Cultural Geography blog , which I started in 2007 while teaching the OCR Pilot GCSE (which had a cultural geography topic) is where I place posts (sometimes cross posting from here) related to cultural geography: music, books, art etc but also linked to the definition below: The study of the relationship between culture and place.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The Soii Havzak Rockshelter: Geography and Significance Soii Havzak is uniquely situated to shed light on the Zeravshan Valley’s ancient role as a crossroads.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This innovative resource package for key stage 3 was developed in partnership with OU Geography Project and academics Parvati Raghuram of the Open University, Melis Cin of Lancaster University and Manu Lekunze of Aberdeen University. The resource pack uses testimonies from Cameroonian people to construct a Cameroon country case study.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

erectus geography but not in the way we expected. Today the modern equivalents of gambiersuch as palm oil and timber plantationsand the relentless pursuit of profit means some areas are continuing to experience deforestation at the highest rates in the world. We potentially solved a knowledge gap in H.

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Living Geography

MAY 16, 2025

s We are concerned that reductions in the capacity of geography in Higher Education will limit opportunities for the discipline to make geography for everyone, and erode the numbers of geography graduates who are needed by our economy, society and environment.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In our response we signal the value of a geographical education for all young people, the strengths of the current provision, and areas in need of attention for the geography curriculum. Geography is a subject that develops young people’s curiosity and helps them to apply that curiosity and learning in real-world contexts.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 10, 2025

Still, the geography offers clues. Nobody Knows — Yet. The fossil defies easy dating. Seawater had long since stripped away its collagen, eliminating possibilities for radiocarbon analysis. During Ice Age glacial periods, sea levels dropped, and Taiwan was connected to mainland Asia.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 1, 2025

It is often said that the radio and its predecessor the telegraph freed communication from geography, cleaving it from transportation. During moments like this, the phonie reinscribes place as much as it collapses itit brings people together across distances but also connects them through their geography.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Via the latest issue of 'Geography' journal. The University of Liverpool has shared a variety of Google Earth Engine tools for researchers (and educators). This includes options for coding using Google Earth Engine.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 11, 2025

He is clear that "geography is everything!" GIS digitises geography and puts it into a geographical frame. Organisations are run by geography. Do analytics of the geography behind the maps. trillion maps were created showing the spread of COVID19 around the world "Geography is everything" Find out more here.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

A cross-posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog which covers my work as Vice President of the Royal Geographical Society. This project will provide a new history of post-WWII British geography, constructed through studying the lived experience and academic atmosphere of the annual conferences of the Society.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

He introduced himself to me by showing me the cover of 'Why Study Geography?' It was a pleasure to chat to Petr Knecht: from the University of Ostrava. on his phone and asking me whether that was me who'd written the book. He then showed me articles on Google Scholar where my book was referenced in his work and that of others.

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Living Geography

MARCH 27, 2025

Studying geography provides students with knowledge and transferable skills that will reward them personally and advance them professionally. In this free online CPD session, Alan Parkinson, author of Why Study Geography?

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Living Geography

DECEMBER 17, 2024

from science to geography). Another example relates to the current KS3/ 4 geography curriculum where the disproportionate amount of time devoted to teaching past climate change and in particular the Milankovitch cycles seems to have led to respondents overestimating the impact of natural forcing mechanisms on recent climate change.

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