complexitybenjamin
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Sheffield, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | This is a blog that was set up to document my research into education. I've not been able to keep it up to date this year, as I've been too busy, but hopefully from September I will be able to get back into writing here. It has become commonplace to hear arguments about the irrelevance of 'traditional' school subjects in the information age and their inability to provide young people with the skills they require for the 21st century. My research is located in opposition to both the idea of a subject discipline as a 'transmittable' body of knowledge but also to the debilitating anti-intellectualism that occurs when subject content is supplanted by this sole focus on pedagogical techniques and generic learning skills. I wish to contribute to an emerging vision for geography education that integrates student experience, teacher knowledge and skills, and the subject resource that is geography and clarify important distinctions between everyday experience, pedagogy and the school curriculum. |