My author copy has just arrived.
It's an anthology book, pulled together by Jennifer Monk and Catherine Owen. It features a whole range of people writing about different aspects of the subject.
Introduction – why this, why now?1. What is geography? - this is the bit that I wrote.
2. Where has geographical enquiry taken me?
3. Writing a key stage 3 geography curriculum from scratch
4. Lesson planning in geography
5. Assessment at key stage 3
6. Purposeful feedback
7. Questioning in geography
8. Where does fieldwork fit in the 11–14 geography curriculum?
9. Using homework to add breadth and depth to the curriculum
10. Incorporating geographical skills within a curriculum
11. Making GIS ‘part of the furniture’ for the teaching of geography
12. Using models in the geography classroom
13. Oracy strategies to improve geographical writing
14. Literacy in geography
15. Writing like a geographer
16. Choosing and using case studies
17. Supporting students with SEND in geography
18. Teaching ‘disadvantaged’ students
19. Retrieval practice in geography
20. Using Instagram and an iPad to engage students
21. Leading a geography department
22. Supporting geography early career teachers
23. Supporting non-specialists to teach geography
24. One approach to key stage 2 geography - Moat Farm Junior School
25. Thinking synoptically in the A-level geography classroom
26. Teaching careers in geography
27. The wonder of physical geography
28. The diagram, the visualiser and the vignette: How to teach about the multiplier effect
29. Exploring gender in the secondary geography classroom
30. Geography … is it queer?
31. Why voices matter now
32. The power of storytelling in geography: a decolonial perspective
33. What is geography teaching today as a Black British geography teacher?
34. How can we make our UK geography content less England-centric?
35. Lantinx visibility
36. Environmental Education: An integrated approach
37. Climate change, super wicked problems and antifragility
38. At and beyond the chalkface: the role of the geography teacher in the age of climate crisis
39. Who owns the Earth? Property rights and environmental conflict
40. Hopeful geography
In Chapter 1, I try to answer an important question for geographers:
My copy was published by Hachette (John Catt) in 2025
Paperback, 448pp
ISBN: 978-1-0360-0485-9
ISBN: 978-1-0360-0485-9

